Historic Properties

Address 3052 Hibiscus Drive, Honolulu TMK 310340060000 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Abstract The wooden, two and a half story Allison-Kang residence is was constructed in 1929. Built by Charles Ingvorsen, the house has been in the Kang family since 1951. The house is tall, asymmetrical and shaped to fit a narrow lot. It references Colonial Revival style through its asymmetrical façade, steep, high-pitched, gabled roofs, double-hung windows, and a dormer. The house is significant under Criterion A as part of an early Honolulu subdivision historically known as Diamond Head Terrace; under Criterion B as the abode of significant members of the Honolulu community; under Criterion C, for its distinctive architecture as a well-designed residence of its period.

Address 2115 Kamehameha Ave Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-001: 028 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Abstract The John A. and Jean L. Johnson Residence was constructed in 1905 by an unknown architect. It is a single story, Queen Anne revival style house with a composition shingled, front facing, gable roof with a prominent intersecting gable on the northeast side. Both the front and side gables are handled in a unique manner with the central portion of each gable end recessed in a round arch, which contains an attic window and ventilators. The end gable displays a small canted oriel window supported by brackets while the front set is flush with the wall. The roof has closed, overhanging eaves featuring ogee brackets. The double wall house has shiplap walls and cut shingled gable ends, which have a distinctive serrated lower row. An inset, front, corner lanai is at the north corner of the house and two bay windows grace the northeast side of the house. The house sits on a lava rock and post and pier foundation with diamond pattern lattice screens covering openings to the foundation. The Johnson Residence is significant under Criterion C, as a good example of a Queen Anne style house built in Honolulu during the opening decade of the twentieth century. In addition, the house is also significant under Criterion A for its associations with the development of Manoa valley, and more specifically the College Hills Tract.

Address 2856 Komaia Street Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-017: 010 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Abstract Built in 1938, the Roscoe and Miriam Allen residence was constructed by an unknown architect but reflects modern design. The Allen Residence is significant on the local level under Criterion C, as a good example of a house built in Honolulu during the 1930s in a modern style. The front entry is characterized by a projecting trellis above a large picture window. The two story, modern style house sits on a concrete slab foundation, and has a rectangular footprint. Its first story walls are of reinforced concrete while the second story is of horizontal, redwood, tongue and groove boards, much of which has been covered in asbestos concrete shingles. It has a low pitched, composition shingled, hip roof with overhanging closed eaves. The eaves’ soffits are of tongue and groove.

Address 2312 Ka‘ala Street Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-005: 012 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Abstract The Paul and Fanetta Loomis Residence was constructed in 1924 by an unknown architect.  The single story, single wall, colonial revival style cottage has a composition shingled hip roof with overhanging, open eaves and exposed rafter tails. The 30’ x 32’, roughly rectangular shaped, two-bedroom house sits on a post and pier foundation with a square lattice apron and its walls have double-lap rustic, beveled siding. The house is characterized by a modest, centered portico with a broken pediment supported by Tuscan columns. The Loomis Residence is significant on the local level under Criterion C, as a good example of a colonial revival style cottage built in Honolulu during the 1920s. The house is also significant under Criterion A for its associations with the development of the College Hills Tract.

Address 1024 Noio Street Honolulu, HI 96816 TMK (1) 3-5-030: 003 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Abstract Constructed in 1959, the Mason residence is significant on the local level under Criterion C, as a good example of a house built in Honolulu during the 1950s in a modern style. The house includes a number of distinctive features and is typical of its period in its design, materials, workmanship and methods of construction. It is the work of a master having been designed by Vladimir Ossipoff, and possesses high artistic values. The single-story, modern style house sits on a concrete slab foundation, and has an irregular L-shaped floor plan. Its walls are vertical, 8” wide, redwood, tongue and groove boards, and its low pitched, intersecting, decra-mastic galvanized aluminum, gable roofs have open, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails. The Mason residence stands as an excellent example of modern style residential architecture in Hawaii and especially Ossipoff’s residential work.