Historic Properties

Address 3833 Old Pali Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 TMK (1) 2-9-070:022 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Historic Designations: Hawai‘i Register of Historic Places Abstract The James and Tomi Knaefler Residence is significant as a modern style house built in the 1960s with strong Japanese influences. Features include a redwood tongue and groove and pitched roof, open beamed ceilings, cork floor, screen walls, built in cabinets, drawers and desk and a totally open bedroom with shoji to close it off. The floor is shiplap siding. The bathroom includes a furo (deep tub) and small tile. The house, built in three phases: 1960, 1967, 1977. It was the work of a master, architect Stephen Oyakawa. Oyakawa was born in Kahaluʻu on O‘ahu and worked for Frank Lloyd Wright until Wright died then returned to Honolulu and opened his own firm. He designed several well-known buildings including Kapahulu  Liliha and ‘Aiea Public Libraries, Moanalua Intermediate School, and circular shaped buildings on the University of Hawai‘i campus.

Address 3833 Old Pali Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 TMK (1) 1-9-004:008 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Historic Designations: Hawai‘i Register of Historic Places Abstract The Charles and Alice Hite Residence, built in 1941, is situated on Old Pali Road in Nu‘uanu Valley. The residence is a good example of the early 1940s Regional style. The house was designed by Albert Ely Ives, a prominent architect in Hawai‘i during the 1930s through the 1950s.  Notable features include acid stained concrete floors, beveled doors, ‘ōhi‘a floors and a double pitched, hip-gable roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails. The home is also significant for its associations with the history of art in Hawai‘i, containing a rare example of prominent Honolulu artist, A. S. MacLeod’s work. A fresco frieze depicting everyday life in ancient Hawai‘i is incorporated into the architecture. MacLeod was one of the preeminent artists in Hawaii during the pre-World War II period. He remained active in Honolulu’s art world following the war exhibiting at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and a number of private Honolulu galleries as well as in San Francisco, Vancouver, Philadelphia, and New York.

Address 2035 Round Top Drive Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 TMK (1) 2-5-007:0112 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Historic Designations: Hawai‘i Register of Historic Places Abstract Constructed in 1930, the Dr. Hans and Clara Zimmerman Residence is significant as a good example of Mediterranean Revival architecture in a modern style. Architect Ray Morris incorporated Spanish Mission elements including stucco and round arches. Modern elements include built in shelves and hutch, an Asian motif in the balustrade, common in Hawai‘i at the time, geometric design cabinets and stairway using sheet metal ornamentation. The house was originally a single-story Mediterranean style, masonry dwelling to which a frame second story was added in 1939.  The Zimmerman residence presents a distinct statement of the emerging tropical modern form, as a result of its blending the modern style with the pre-existing Mediterranean style house. The general hallmarks of the Mediterranean revival style such as the first story’s stucco walls, the round arched openings of the porches, and the rear and side porch’s framed round arches with keystones, remain, but are subservient to the more tropical modern aspects of the house.

Address 4817 Aukai Avenue Honolulu, Hawaii 96816 TMK (1) 3-5-007:026 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Historic Designations: Hawai‘i Register of Historic Places Abstract The Dr. Gardner and Esther Black Residence is significant on the local level under criterion C, as a good example of a house built in Honolulu in the 1930s in a tropical modern style. Its unadorned, clean horizontal lines resulting from the tongue and groove applied horizontally, house’s low profile and the moderne beam end all bespeak the style. The open flowing spaces are also typical and the extensive use of sliding doors and windows, the employment of Asian wood screens, and the pavilion plan all further address the Island situation in a modern manner. The house is also an early example of the work of a master, Vladimir Ossipoff.

Address 2386 East Mānoa Road, Honolulu TMK (1) 2-9-010:034 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Historic Designations: Hawai‘i Register of Historic Places Abstract Built in 1916, the Arthur Coyne House is significant on the local level under Criterion C as a good example of residence built in the American Colonial Revival style and reflects the choices of the new political elite in turn of the century Hawai‘i. Its asymmetrical façade sets it apart from the usually symmetrical examples of American Colonial Revival style house built in Mānoa. The architectural style chosen by Arthur Coyne for his residence reflects the new dominance of Americans after the annexation and the establishment of the Territory of Hawai‘i. The house contains a number of features that reflect its period of design. Its use of local vernacular materials, construction methods and workmanship are typical of houses built in the district in the mid-1910s.