This year’s theme is the history of historic preservation in Hawaii. Our first speaker was Spencer Leineweber on the history of C. W. Dickey and the restorations of the Lyman House in Hilo and the Mission Houses here in Honolulu. For the next five weeks there will be a talk with a similar theme on a similar topic. Join us at the the old archives building at Iolani Palace, admission is free and feel free to bring your own bag lunch.
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January 27. Spencer Leineweber “C. W. Dickey and Hart Wood: Pioneers of Preservation in Hawai‘i”
February 3. Barbara Del Piano “The Daughters of Hawai‘i: Preservation Beginnings”
February 10 Margit C.Watts “High Tea at the Halekulani Revisited: The Outdoor Circle and the Preservation of Hawai‘i’s Special Character”
February 17 Alice Guild “The Friend of ‘Iolani Palace: How America’s Only Official Royal Palace Was Saved by Its Friends”
February 24 Laura Carter Schuster “Early Archeologists in Hawai‘i: The Beginnings of Preservation and CRM”
March 3 Robert Fox “Historic Hawai‘i Foundation: Its Earliest Days”
I hope I can visit it !
the cost of the house may be inexpensive, but what about the restoration and note that the restoration has to meet the critieria of the historic distric. In our last in person discussion we talked about the house in High Wine that used vinyl siding as part of fixing the house up. we talked about the cost of restoring houses to specifications/methods by those criteria. the comment you made about the owners was “they can certainly afford it”. We were asked to consider purchasing a house in Moss Bradley once. The price of the house was 60K, but the rehab costs were well beyond what we could afford. So yes, you need to have financial resources or perhaps be gifted in doing your own home repairs, regardless there is cost. Our house is 88 years old, but not in a historic district. Everything that has to be done to it is a custom job that we have to figure out how to get the the repairs down we need within our budget. There is no way we could afford to rehab the entire house and on top of it do it in the manner to restore everything to the original.