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The current Wailuku Library was built in 1928 to replace another building on the same site used by the Maui County Free Library, which was created by the Maui Women's Club in 1919 as the first Library on Maui. [12] Designed by Hawaii-based architect C.W. Dickey, the building incorporates both Mediterranean Revival & Hawaiian architecture cues.
He was the architect for the iconic building, Harbor Court, the anchor of the redevelopment of the downtown waterfront. Harbor Court is a multi-use building with restaurants in the lower floors and a split residential/office tower. No other building in Honolulu captures the romantic spirit of Hawaiʻi.
In addition, or perhaps overlapping, are five U.S. National Park Service areas of historic orientation in Hawaii. [5] Of these, the USS Arizona Memorial, Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park, Kalaupapa National Historical Park, and Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site are also National Historic Landmarks and are listed above.
This article lists the oldest extant buildings in Hawaii, including extant buildings and structures constructed prior to and during the United States rule over Hawaii. Only buildings built prior to 1880 are suitable for inclusion on this list, or the building must be the oldest of its type.
Along with other buildings in the immediate area, it is a part of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society's Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives (1920), and includes designations of U.S. National Historic Landmark (1962) and National Register of Historic Places (1966).
The King Kamehameha Golf Course Clubhouse, formerly known as the Waikapu Valley Country Club, is a building in Waikapu, Maui, Hawaii.The structure is based on the unbuilt Arthur Miller house (1957) originally conceived by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959).
Kamehameha used the building as part of his encampment in 1802, [9] with over 1000 people in his entourage. [10] The encampment area surrounding the building became a neighborhood known for the chiefly line associated with Kamehameha. Food was grown for the royal family and the area called the "Royal Taro Patch" was connected with this ...
Dickey’s California firm designed the plantation office building for the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company (HC&S) at Puunene, Maui in 1917 (and his Honolulu firm designed renovations to the building ten years later). HC&S, a division of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., was the last remaining sugar plantation in Hawaii when it closed in 2016.