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'OLD MISSION HOUSE' (photo ca 1907, original in Hawaii State Archives; photocopy 1966). - Mission Frame House, King and Kawaiahao Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI
Photographer
Boucher, Jack E.
Title
'OLD MISSION HOUSE' (photo ca 1907, original in Hawaii State Archives; photocopy 1966). - Mission Frame House, King and Kawaiahao Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI
Depicted place Hawaii; Honolulu County; Honolulu
Date 1966
date QS:P571,+1966-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS HI,2-HONLU,19-14
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The house is credited as the oldest frame house in the Hawaiian Islands, built during the reign of King Kamehameha II. It gains additional distinction from the fact that it represents one of the earliest uses of a type of pre-fabrication, the lumber for it having arrived in April 1820 with the Pioneer Mission Company, with the frame for the house arriving in December 1820. Excavation for the mud and straw cellar began in April 1821. It was first occupied in August 1821 by the Daniel Chamberlain family. Many of the early families who influenced the growth of the missions and the development of the country have lived here, including the Loomises, Thurstons, Binghams and Judds. At one time it housed 12 adults and 12 children. Conditions such as this led to a succession of alterations and additions. In 1851 it was purchased by the Cooke family who later left it to the Hawaiian Mission Board in 1896. The Hawaiian Mission Children's Society acquired the property from the C.M. Cooke estate in 1925 after having held it in lease since 1907. There was a major restoration in 1935 by Mr. C.W. Dickey, architect for the Society, who strengthened it with steel and concrete, suitably hidden. Today, it stands as an example of straightforward New England architecture amid the tropical growth of Hawaii.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-20
  • Survey number: HABS HI-21
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hi0032.photos.057922p
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Object location21° 18′ 24.98″ N, 157° 51′ 29.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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