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Honolulu Police Station (1931). One of the last Mediterranean style building, this structure replaced an older police station built on this site in 1886. It functioned as the police station from 1931 to 1961, and since, has housed various city and county offices. Inside it displays lavish decorative tile, French marble, Phillippine mahogany, and Hawaiian Koa. It is now called the Walter Murray Gibson Building.
Bishop Bank Building (1878). The predecessor to First Hawaiian Bank, it is one of the two largest banks in Hawaii. This northern Italian Renaissance style building features a corner entry. Bishop Bank moved to a much larger neo-classical building on Bishop Street in 1925.
Bishop Estate Building (1896). Designed by Charles W. Dickey and Clinton Briggs Ripley, it exhibits a very similar blue stone Romanesque Revival shown by the Irwin Block (also designed by the pair). The stones were quarried from a hillside near Kamehameha School. Princess Bernice Pauahi, heir to the Kamehameha lands, married Charles R. Bishop in 1850. Bishop Estate was established to manage the lands after her death in 1884. Today the Bishop Estate offices are in a modern office complex just Diamond Head of the Mission Houses on South King Street.
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