Restoring Bishop Museum's Hawaiian Hall: Ho‘i Hou Ka Wena Kaiwi‘ula (Dawn's golden glow returns to Kawai‘ula) gives a sneak peek into the newly renovated Hawaiian Hall at Bishop Museum. It consists of a collection of essays from various people within the community who had a hand in the hall's [...]
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One of the last surviving authentic traditional Hawaiian dwellings was reconstructed at the turn of the century (1902) and is preserved at Bishop Museum. The posts and rafters are from an abandoned house built before 1800 in Miloli‘i Valley, Kaua‘i. Other materians used in the house are from var [...]
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by Don J. Hibbard, Glenn E. Mason, and Karen J. Weitze As a leading advocate for the development of a Hawaiian style of architecture, Hart Wood (1880–1957) incorporated local building traditions and materials in many of his pr [...]
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