Description
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Series -
PP
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Box # -
13
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Folder # -
2
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Image # -
039
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Title -
Buildings - Public - Mission House
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Description -
[from the back]:See also Capt. Cooke Collection (Red Folder - upstairs with other photos of Private Coll); This is a Photostatic Copy of a Copy of a Copper-plate Engraving of a Drawing. [from the front]: Mission Houses, Honolulu; {from the caption]: Copy of a Copper-plate Engraving of a Drawing. Made in 1837 by Daniel Wheeler - a Travelling Evangelist - on his Gospel Mission through the Pacific Islands. At the left, in the foreground, is the first frame house built on the Islands. It was occupied by the Binghams and many other Mission families finally becoming the home of the Cookes. Back of it is the Chamberlain house. The house in the foreground at the right, on the mauka side of King Street, was built by Rev. E. W. Clark about 1828, who with his family occupied it until they went to Lahainaluna in the early 30's. Rev. Reuben Tinker and family lived there from 1834 until about 1838. Mr. Castle with his first wife and infant daughter Mary moved into it in July 1838. It remained the home of the Castles until they moved to Manoa in March 1899. It then became the "Castle Home for Children" until the home was moved to Manoa in February, 1908. In August, 1908 it became the Y.W.C.A. Homestead. Back of this house to the right and partly hidden is the Mission printing house built of coral stone, like the Castle house. Directly to the left, with stairs in front, is the Mission bindery, built of adobe, and back of it can be seen the front of the house where the Judds, Clarks and Halsey Gulicks lived successively. Kawaiahao Seminary eventually occupied all three buildings, remaining on this historic ground until the new quarters were built in Manoa in 1908, and the grounds were left free for the Hawaiian Board to erect in 1915 the present building as a memorial to those early workers in the Mission. Farther down the road is the last Mission house in the row, made of coral stone, where the Dimonds lived and later the Rogers. This place is now the open lot in fron of the Library of Hawaii. The walls around the Mission house are of adobe. The folidage in the picture is of the hau - which was about the only vegetation that would grow on the plain where there was no moisture except from the winter rains. Ships can be seen in the harbor, as was possible in those days, and behind them, far in the distance are the two Moanalua hills, backed by the Waianae mountains and the Oahu range. If desired, copies of this print may be ordered from Gurrey's Ltd.
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Photo Credit -
Wheeler, Daniel (1837)
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Gift Of -
Castle, Samuel
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Received Date -
Dec. 21. 1944
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Display Date -
1837
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Start Date -
1/1/1837
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End Date -
12/31/1837
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