Oahu Residential

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.

Abstract The La Pietra Townhouse is a multiple property nomination. The townhouse was conceived in 1967 and built in 1971 by architect Louis Pursel and developer Bert Williams. The site was landscaped by San Francisco landscape architecture firm Eckbo, Dean, Austin and Williams. The site is comprised of 19 duplexes and 38 units, although the listing is comprised of only10 units. The dwelling units at La Pietra Townhouses are significant on the local level under Criterion C, as a very good example of a luxury townhouse unit built in Honolulu during the late 1960s-early 1970s in a modern Hawai‘i style. The design is based on open flowing interior spaces, use of local lava rock and low-pitched hip-gable roofs, with overhanding eaves and exposed rafter tails. The extensive indoor-outdoor opportunities are typical of Hawai‘i’s regional architecture in the modern style. The dwelling units are significant at the local level under criterion A for their associations with the development of townhouse complexes in Hawai‘i. Unusual for the time, the La Pietra Townhouses are the employment of duplexes, as well as the size of the individual units, with 2,228 square feet of living space, and the size and privacy of the back yards. The development’s amount of green, open space is significant.  They are also significant for associations with historic preservation in Hawai‘i. The call for the need to preserve La Pietra, which had been slated for demolition, was among early successful public outcries against a large-scale private development proposal in the name of historic preservation. Unit 1: Al and Vivian Phillips Residence Address 3005 La Pietra Circle TMK (1) 3-1-029:0330001 Nomination Form Unit 2:  [...]

Address 1308 Alapai Street, Honolulu, HI 96813 TMK (1) 2-1-037: 001 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Abstract The Queens Quarters, also known as Alapai Apartments, was designed by Jo Paul Rognstad. Built by Allied Construction, the structure was completed in 1969. The Queen’s Quarters is significance under Criterion A for its association with the development of housing in Honolulu during the late 1960s. Queen’s Quarters is also significant under Criterion C for its distinctive mid-century design employing strong horizontal and vertical elements. The open-air walkways at each lever and the cantilevered lanai are local adaptations to the mid-century vocabulary. The building’s rectilinear forms, asymmetry, cantilevered elements, and a lack of decoration are key characteristics of the International Style.  The building is an expression of Hawai‘i vernacular in its use of concrete as the primary building material, its open-air walkways and stairs, breis block walls for ventilation, and louvered windows and doors.

Address 3011 Vista Place, Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-9-030-017 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Abstract Built in 1928, the Martin J. & Mary Condon Residence is significant under Criterion C as a bungalow style house built in the 1920s. The house sits on a lava rock and post and pier foundation. It differs from the typical bungalow by its use of clipped gable roofs, both on the main body of the house and its two projecting porches. Other unusual features include the placement of the “front” and “rear” porches adjacent to one another and the orientation of the house with its façade facing the side of the lot rather than the street. The use of Tuscan columns is also uncommon for the style. Elements typical of the style include the projecting porches with front facing clipped gable roofs, use of lava rock in the foundation and the roof’s open, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails. The flowing living-dining room space on the interior is also associated with the bungalow style in Hawai‘i.

Address 1828 McKinley St, Honolulu, HI 96822 TMK (1) 2-8-021-030 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Abstract The Claude & Helena Buffet Residence is significant under Criterion C as a bungalow style house built during the 1920s. Built in 1929, the residence includes many features typical of the style including its prominent, projecting, gable roofed-enclosed lanai, square columns, and the use of local lava rock, and open, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails. Craftsman elements include the flowing living and dining room spaces with their 15 pocket doors and oak floors as well as the 6 x 1 double hung sash windows. Unique to the home are the ornate Cephas B. Rogers four socket, flush mount, ceiling lights.  Cephas Brainerd Rogers (1836-1919) was the eldest of four brothers who gained national recognition for their manufacture of silver-plated goods and flatware.

Address 2823 Coconut Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815 TMK (1) - 3-1-033: 049 SHPD Historic Site Number Not Yet Available Abstract The Donald & Lillian Holzinger Residence was built in 1926. The builder was Pacific Trust Company. The home is significant under Criterion C as a bungalow built during the early 1920s.  The craftsman/bungalow style is an American architectural style and philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. Originality, simplicity of form, local natural materials, and the presence of hand craftsmanship were encouraged. The house boasts a lateral running gable roof, lava rock shoulders on the front steps, overhanging eaves and 6 x 1 double hung sash windows and 15-pane entry doors. The house is also significant on the local level under criterion A for its associations with the development of the Diamond Head Terrace tract.