Address 605 Kapiolani Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96813 Designed By Walter Emory and Marshall Webb Highlights of Hawaii's Daily Newspapers and Their Locations by Lowell Angell Since Hawaii’s first newspaper, Ka Lama Hawaii, was published in 1834 at Lahaina, Maui, it’s estimated that there have been more than 1,000 different news publications, varying in frequency and in at least nine languages. The two best known today are, of course, The Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin. The Pacific Commercial Advertiser began as a weekly on July 2, 1856, and is Hawaii’s oldest continuously published newspaper. Founded by businessman and missionary son Henry M. Whitney, the paper was pro-American and pro-annexation, except when Walter Murray Gibson, a royalist and front for Claus Spreckles, ran it from 1880-1887. It was later purchased by annexationist Lorrin A. Thurston, former cabinet minister under King Kalākaua. Wallace Rider Farrington (Territorial Governor, 1921-1929) was editor from 1894-1897. The paper became The Honolulu Advertiser on March 31, 1921. Although not its first home, the Advertiser was located in the W.W. Dimond building on King Street, between Fort and Bethel Streets, until 1913. [W.W. Dimond & Co. sold home furnishings. In 1936, the King Theatre was built on the site, now a multi-story parking garage]. The Advertiser then moved to King Street, between Richards and Alakea Streets. The building, later extended to Merchant Street, still exists as the Arcade Building. In January 1930, the Advertiser occupied its present home at 605 Kapi‘olani Boulevard at South Street. Designed by architects Walter Emory and Marshall Webb, the three-story Beaux Arts building features large divided-lite awning windows and a Spanish tile hipped roof. The third floor once housed Hawaii’s oldest radio [...]