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The 2.75-acre (11,000 m 2) mausoleum was designed by architect Theodore Heuck. [11] By 1862, the Royal Tomb at Pohukaina was full and there were no space for the coffins of Prince Albert, who died August 27, 1862, and King Kamehameha IV, who died November 30, 1863. [12]
Location Occupant Current Status Ref ʻĀinahau: Honolulu Kaʻiulani: Estate willed to the City of Honolulu for a park; the house burned down in early 1900s; the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel was built on the ground [1] Brick Palace: Lāhainā Meant for Kaʻahumanu, but she had a grass hut built next to it and Kamehameha I lived in it for ...
Mokuʻula was a tiny island in Maluʻulu o Lele Park, Lahaina, Hawaiʻi, United States.It was the private residence of King Kamehameha III from 1837 to 1845 and the burial site of several Hawaiian royals.
In 1863, King Kamehameha IV built the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii across the street for the Hawaiian royal family. In Punchbowl Crater (to the south) the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific was founded in 1948. Just north of the Royal Mausoleum, the "Nuʻuanu Memorial Park" was added in 1949, with its own funeral home.
All about Hawaii: The Recognized Book of Authentic Information on Hawaii, Combined with Thrum's Hawaiian Annual and Standard Guide, Hawaii: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1904; Judd, Walter F. (1975). Palaces and Forts of the Hawaiian Kingdom: From Thatch to American Florentine. Honolulu: Pacific Books, Publishers. ISBN 978-0-87015-216-0.
Hoʻolulu Park is also the location of the annual Merrie Monarch Festival, named in honor of King Kalākaua, the great grand-nephew of Hoʻolulu, [20] The auditorium is named for coach Ung-Soy "Beans" Afook and athlete and promoter Richard "Pablo" Chinen who both died in 1991. [21] The park is the setting of at least one fiction book. [22]
Kamehameha I (also known as Kamehameha the Great), who unified the Hawaiian Islands, lived out the last years of his life and instituted some of the most constructive measures of his reign (1810–1819) here. The residential compound included the personal shrine, ʻAhuʻena heiau, of the King. [2]
Thus, when Kamehameha V ordered construction of Aliʻiōlani Hale, he commissioned it as a government office building instead of a palace. Kamehameha V laid the cornerstone for the building on February 19, 1872. [4] [5] He died before the building was completed, and it was dedicated in 1874 by one of his successors, King David Kalākaua. At the ...