Kauai Residential

5-8061 Kuhio Highway / Waimakua Homestead

Address 45-8061 Kuhio Highway, Haena, Kauai 96746 TMK (4) 5-9-003:001, Lot 141 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract The Waimakua Homestead consists of three houses, a pool, and a cultivated, terraced garden in Hā‘ena. The property sits at the base of the Hā‘ena mountains near the Nā Pali coast and looks north over a wide beach and the Pacific Ocean. The Homestead is of local significance under Criterion B for Juliet Atwood Rice Wichman, whose contributions to Kaua‘i as a conservationist, horticulturalist, philanthropist, author, organizer, and volunteer spanned five decades. She was instrumental in the formation of the Kaua‘i Museum, founded and funded Limahuli Gardens, and perpetuated Hawaiian agriculture and culture knowledge through her research and writings. The homestead is also of local significance under Criterion C as a good example of a plantation style, multi-residence, family compound that exhibits Hawaiian architectural details such as single-wall construction, exterior lanais, and native basalt rock elements. The pool and garden are significant contributing elements. The garden was used by Mrs. Wichman for her cultivation and study of flora throughout her 40-year residence on the property. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2024-08-15T14:15:30-10:00August 15th, 2024|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: , |

2257 Kuai Road / Sakuichi and Chieko Matsumoto Residence

Address 2257 Kuai Rd, Koloa, HI 96756 TMK 280180310000 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract Located in a quiet, residential neighborhood in Po‘ipū, the Sakuichi and Chieko Matsumoto residence is a post and pier, single-story, single wall craftsman/bungalow style residence with an attached garage and laundry room. The walls are tongue-and-groove with an exterior girt and lattice apron with a square pattern around the foundation. Other notable features include use of local lava rock on the porch, battered columns, a roof with overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails, a flowing living-dining room space and use of built-ins such as the hall linen closet and dressing table niche in the front bedroom. Built in 1949, the house is significant under Criterion C as a very good example of the final years of the bungalow style in Hawai‘i and on Kaua‘i. It is one of only two houses on the street to survive Hurricane Iniki in 1992.

2024-03-05T16:25:15-10:00March 5th, 2024|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

4241 Kekuanaoa Lane / Carswell Residence

Address 4241 Kekuanaoa Ln, Princeville, HI 96722 TMK 540090360000 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Abstract The Carswell Residence is located in Princeville on the North Shore of the Island of Kauaʻi, and was one of the first houses to be constructed in Princeville at the Hanalei resort community. The majority of the house’s original design features and materials are still extant: its linear massing, built into the sloped site, gable roof with open eaves, lava rock chimney, unadorned rough sawn redwood siding, and redwood windows and doors at the exterior, as well as its open floor plan, exposed wood beam ceilings, rough sawn redwood board-and-batten and plaster walls, built-in seating nooks, and lava rock chimney at the interior. Completed in 1972, the single-family house has three levels and was designed by architect Douglas Ackerman. The Carswell Residence is significant under Criterion B for its association with Donn Carswell, project manager and chief engineer of the Princeville community’s initial development in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also significant under Criterion C.

2024-01-24T13:09:02-10:00January 24th, 2024|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

Mrs. Mary S. Rice Beach House

Address Kipu Road, Kipu Kai, Kauai, 96766 TMK (4) 3-1-001: 003 SHPD Historic Site Number 50-30-11-02315   Abstract The Mrs. Mary S. Rice beach house at Kipu Kai is significant on the local level under Criterion A (History/Events), for its associations with the use of Kipu Kai as a vacation retreat and also for its associations with Kipu Kai Ranch.  From the time of its construction in 1886 to the present, Mrs. Rice's beach house at Kipu Kai has gained a reputation for being an isolated vacation enclave unto itself.  In addition the ranching operations at Kipu Kai Ranch contributed to the ranching industry of Kauai from the 1920s to 2005, when ranching operations ceased. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2018-08-01T16:05:31-10:00March 22nd, 2018|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

3471 Lawailoa Lane / Kauai Pineapple Company’s Facility Superintendent’s House

Address 3471 Lawailoa Lane, Koloa Kauai 96756 TMK (4) 2-6-003:045 SHPD Historic Site Number N/A Download Nomination Form The Kaua‘i Pineapple Company’s factory superintendent’s house is located in a quiet, residential neighborhood near a bend in Lawailoa Lane, a dead end street off Kōloa Road. It is a single-story, single wall, modern style house. It sits on a post and pier foundation and its walls are of 12” redwood, tongue and groove boards. A lattice apron with a square pattern runs around the foundation. The house’s low pitched, shake shingle hip roof has open, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails. The Kaua‘i Pineapple Company’s factory superintendent’s house is significant on the local level under criterion C, as a good example of a house built on Kaua‘i in the pre-World War II period in a tropical modern style. The house is also significant at the local level under criterion A for its associations with the history of the Kaua‘i Pineapple Company. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2017-04-21T01:03:14-10:00January 12th, 2017|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

4943 Weke Road/ A. S. Wilcox Beach House

Address 4943 Weke Road, Hanalei, Kauai 96714 TMK (4) 5-5-001:002, 018, 019, 020, 021 SHPD Historic Site Number 30-03-9371 National Register of Historic Places #93000725 Abstract This Folk Victorian house is a rambling single-story building, with numerous rooms connected by a roofed lanai.  There have been no major alterations or additions to this beach house complex. The A. S. Wilcox beach house is architecturally significant as a good, surviving example of a late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century house in Hawaii, and its association with Albert Spencer Wilcox. Its rambling design and separation of social, cooking, and sleeping functions into detached rooms connected by a lanai is typical of the period. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2017-04-21T01:01:36-10:00June 20th, 2014|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: , |

5174 Weke Road/ Sanborn Beach House

Address 5174 Weke Road, Hanalei, Kauai 96714 TMK (4) 5-5-002:094 SHPD Historic Site Number 30-01-9043 Download Nomination Form Abstract A two-story wood frame, plantation style home with board and batten walls, hip and valley roof line, cedar shingles, and overhanging eaves. This beach front home features panoramic views and interior Craftsman style detailing including elaborate trim work on the ceilings. The house is the first beach front home to be constructed in the area and is significant for its association with the history and development of the community of Hanalei. It is also significant as an example of a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Craftsman style house built in Hawaii. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2017-04-21T01:03:14-10:00February 14th, 2014|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

4591 Kuawa Road/ Kilauea Plantation Manager’s House

Address 4591 Kuawa Road, Kilauea, Kauai 96754 TMK (4) 5-2-013:001 SHPD Historic Site Number 30-04-9394 National Register of Historic Places #93000777 Abstract This house designed by L. David Larsen is a two-story structure with a ground story of lava rock stone and second floor of wood-frame construction with a wood-shingle exterior. However, the kitchen wing is of a single story. The upstairs is comprised of five bedrooms and three baths, along with the first-floor living and dining room. The exceptional size of the house reflects the entertaining and hospitality to visiting executives that the plantation manager was expected to provide. The house's architecture and association with the Kilauea Plantation make it significant as it was the first stone residence built on the plantation and is the largest and most elaborate building of the remaining stone structures constructed by the plantation. The Kilauea Plantation Manager's House is a good example of the Craftsman bungalow style of architecture in Hawaii and is unusual in its "butterfly plan," which is well adapted to the necessities of climate and the more informal lifestyle found in Hawaii. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2017-04-21T01:03:14-10:00February 14th, 2014|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: , |

5242 Weke Road/ Douglas Baldwin Beach House

Address 5242 Weke Road, Hanalei, Kauai 96714 TMK (4) 5-5-002:107 SHPD Historic Site Number 30-03-9386 Abstract The Douglas Baldwin Beach House built in 1928 is a single-story frame house rectangular in shape with a corrugated iron hip roof and a large enclosed lanai added in 1935. The house sits on a large ocean-front lot with an expansive lawn and an ironwood hedge. It is architecturally significant as typical of the genre of vacation beach houses erected in Hanalei in the 1920s and 1930s, and also significant for its association with the development of Hanalei as a vacation community during this time. The house is also significant for its association with Douglas Ebner Baldwin, manager of Alexander & Baldwin's Hawaiian Sugar Company from 1928 to 1942. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2017-04-21T01:03:14-10:00February 14th, 2014|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |

5344 Weke Road/ Mahamoku (Mabel Wilcox Hanalei Beach House)

Address 5344 Weke Road, Hanalei, Kauai 96714 TMK (4) 5-5-003:010 SHPD Historic Site Number 30-03-9374 Abstract This beach house is a one-and-a-half story, wood-frame "L" shaped house with board-and-batten walls, high-pitched gable roof, overhanging eaves, a deep lanai that faces Hanalei Bay, and interior Craftsman design elements. It was built in 1914 in the American Arts and Crafts tradition and is an impressive variation of the bungalow style in Hawaii. It is associated with the Wilcox family of Kauai. This list of Hawaii’s historic properties is provided as a public service by Historic Hawaii Foundation. It is not the official list of properties designated on the Hawaii State Register of Historic Places. For official designations and determinations of eligibility, contact the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources of the State of Hawaii at 808-692-8015.

2017-04-21T01:03:14-10:00February 14th, 2014|Categories: Historic Properties|Tags: |
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