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Hawaii's Washington Place HAWAII'S WASHINGTON PLACE ... VvASHINGTON PLi~\CE HONOLULU> HAWAII We hope you and the members of your org~nization 96813 will be able to join us on this evening espec1ally set aside in tribute to the memory of a magnificent monarch. August 12, 1982 Spouses are invited. Please forward the names of those who will attend to Mona Odachi at Washington Place, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, by September 13. We look forward to welcoming you personally to Ms. Lorraine Freitas enjoy the home and the spirit of a Queen who holds a Queen Emma Hawaiian Civic Club special place in all of our hearts. 47-711 Kamehameha Highway Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744 A1aha pumehana s Dear Ms. Freitas: 9-~~()~ September marks the 144th birthday anniversary of Hawaii's beloved Queen Lili1uokalani. This year is a special one. The dedication of the Spirit of Lili'uokalani sculpture on the State Capitol concourse and the return of many of the Queen's personal belongings to Washington Place which now has been restored and refurbished are testaments to the enduring affection the people of Hawaii have for the Queen. More importantly, the spirit of the Queen continues to imbue a gracious aura to the walls and ard Kealoha gardens of Washington Place. ~~.~ Won't you come and share in a ho'okupu to the ~eV- _Rose Queen on September 23, from 7 to 9 p.m. Our evening ~~~ reception will feature a special exhibit of the Queen's memorabilia from the Bishop Mu~eum, items Ms. patri~. ~::d~: rarely on view to the public. We will also have music ~ Jl.-~ and light refreshments. Dress is aloha attire. Neil Hannahs .~ "... THE MOST VENERABLE RESIDENCE IN THE ISLANDS" Washington Place is the warm and beautiful On the same day, the King commanded in an waii, which had been formally proclaimed July 5, home of the Governor of Hawaii and his family, Official Notice "that they retain that name in all 1894.' She was imprisoned in a second-story bed­ set in a garden in Downtown Honolulu. It is the time coming." room of Iolani Palace for nine months. Following most venerable residence in the Hawaiian Islands,' The house was built in four years-1842 to her conditional pardon September 7, 1895, she re­ filled with wonderful stories, memories and me­ 1846-by Isaac Hart, a master-mechanic hired by'. turned to live in' a semi-royal,state at Washington mentoes sacred in Hawaiian history. an American sea-captain, John Dominis, who had Place, surrounded by her retainers. Her home be­ It is the oldest house in the Islands continuously journeyed from New York with his wife and young came the rendezvous ofall who had defended the used as a domicile. It has been the home of 10 of son to live in the Islands. Just after the building Hawaiian Monarchy-a little kingdom where she Hawaii's 14 Governors, and of one Governor of was completed, the captain sailed from Honolulu was accorded all the honors due a Sovereign. Oahu in the Kingdom of Hawaii. It also served as on August 5, 1846 for China. He was on a trading Liliuokalani 'was well educated, a composer of the semi-royal residence of the great Queen Lili­ journey, and hoped to buy handsome Chinese music and a writer, and Washington Place alsc uokalani, last of Hawaii's reigning monarchs. The furniture for his new home. He had made several became a popular gathering 'place for her friends concert-size koa-wood piano on which she often voyages earlier, which helped pay for the con­ and for distinguished travelers visiting in Hono­ played her loveliest composition, "Aloha Oe," is struction. But the ship on which he sailed to China' lulu. The Queen died at Washington Place No­ still in use today. It is in perfect tune' and condi­ was never seen again, A report was heard and vember II, 1917, at the age of 79. The Queen's bedroom contains her bed and a tion, and the melodies of "The Sound of Music" published that it was wrecked in Micronesia, and The Hawaiian Islands formally became an inte­ dresser with memorabilia under her portrait. and "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" are that Captain Dominis had landed on a small is­ 'gral part of the United States as a Territory on lyrical reminders that the Hawaii of today and the land, where he was killed by natives. No one really June 14, 1900. Sanford B. Dole was named first William Francis Quinn : 1957-1962 Hawaii of yesterday meet in a lively family envi­ knows. Governor of the Territory of Hawaii by President John Anthony Burns : 1962-1974 ronment rather than a musty old museum. In 1847, the Captain's widow rented. a suite of William McKinley. Iolani Palace became the Ex­ George Ryoichi Ariyoshi : 1974- Yet Washington Place remains hallowed Ha­ rooms to Commissioner TenEyck, whose wife had ecutive Building and no longer an official resi­ Washington Place is a two-story,. 17-room struc­ waiian ground, held in reverence for its echoes of died some months earlier. These became theLe­ dence. Since no such residence was provided, four ture of Greek Revival architecture, on 3.1 acres former days. In the reign of King Kamehameha gation, and the Stars andStripes were flown each Hawaii Govcrnors-v-Dole, George R. Carter, Wal­ at 320 South Beretania Street. It has almost Ill, it housed the United States Legation. U.S. day from a flagpole erected in the yard. ter F. Frear and Lucius E. Pinkam-resided in doubled in size and area since Captain Dominis Commissioner Anthony TenEyck named it Wash­ On September 16, 1862, John Owen Dominis, their own homes. acquired the land in 1842 as a result of a complex ington Place on February 22, 1848, the '115th birth­ the Captain's son, married the Honorable Lydia Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, one of the land-ownership settlement involving British Con- day anniversary of the nation's first President. K. P. Kapaakea, sister of Chief David Kalakaua. heirs to Queen Liliuokalani's estate, suggested sul Richard Charlton. The largest additions to the " .WASHINGTON PLACE REMAINS HALLOWED HAWAIIAN GROUND" Dominis was named Governor of Oahu by King the Territory acquire Washington Place as the residence were a glazed' lanai when Governor Kamehameha V in 1863. After Kalakaua became Executive Mansion. The Legislatures of 1919 and Lawrence Judd lived there, and a larger open King, his sister received the title of Princess, and 1920 appropriated funds, and in May, 1921, the lanai, added in 1953 when Samuel' Wilder King then Queen, Liliuokalani. When the elderly Mrs. building and land became Government property, was Governor to provide more space for recep­ Dominis died on April 25, 1889, the property went at a cost of $55,000 including repairs and furnish­ tions. During the Governorship of John A. Burns, to her son, King Kalakaua died January 20, 1891, ings. In the meantime, Governor Charles J. other improvements were made to keep the his­ while in San Francisco, and Princess Liliuokalani McCarthy had leased Washington Place, making toric residence in prime condition. The 'garden ascended to the throne on January 29. Her hus­ it unofficially the Executive Mansion. It became area has shell ginger, ti, ferns, tree ferns, panda­ band was given the title Prince Consort. He died the official home of the Governor of Hawaii April nus, palms,'giant vines, and a rose garden. seven months later, on August 27, and Washington 21, 1922, when Governor Wallace R. Farrington The furnishings at Washington Place include Place then became the property of the Queen. formally opened it as such. The following Gov- historic pieces such as' Queen Liliuokalani's piano, Because Hawaii's sovereigns resided in nearby ernors have officially occupied it: (made of Island koa by Fischer, in New York), lolaniPalace, Queen Liliuokalani did not use Wallace Rider Farrington : 1922-1929 bed, settee and numerous mementoes. Afloor-to­ Washington Place as her official horne until the Lawrence McCully Judd : 1929-1934 ceiling framed iportrait of the Queen is one. of overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy on January Joseph Boyd Poindexter : 1934-1942 mariy art works depicting old Hawaii. Still in use The blue room has the Queen~s Chinese 17, 1893. Two years later, on January 16, '1895, ' Ingram Macklin Stainback: 1942-1951 in the dining room is silverware presented to King . Rosewood furniture and a painting: .HMS the Queen was arrested at Washington Place and Oren Ethelbirt Long : 1951-1953 Kamehameha IV by Emperor Napoleon III in Blonde. charged with treason against the Republic ,of Ha- Samuel Wilder King : 1953-1957 1858. A beautifully crafted porcelain bust of ..c +> .,.. OU:::SC1 Q. \U :::s Il:::t ..... V) +J ~ -0. OJ UlC/) S-t"" ..... cd'" er- ..... QJ.,.. QJ ..... ::s . ItS u t-I ....J ItS·,.. S-'..c:::..t: 0. QJO OJ .r:.E .,.. t: C/)(/)o ..c::: .,... (.) (/) C u>, QJ s:: o n:s QJ ItS·,... QJ +>(.)ttS S. ..... ttS ..s::: OJ OJ ..... ..c::::3:.c c.. n::s ..... -cCf. > 3 +> OJ c. n:s ...., s- ft S- 0- s:: .,... ..s:::: :::s V)~ O::JaJ >,Cl ttS .
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