CLARK AND LUCILLE REYNOLDS RENTAL HOUSES HABS HI-576 5839 and 5841 Kalanianaole Highway HABS HI-576 Honolulu Honolulu County Hawaii PHOTOGRAPHS WRITTEN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240-0001 HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY CLARK AND LUCILLE REYNOLDS RENTAL HOUSES HABS No. HI-576 Location: 5839 and 5841 Kalanianaole Highway Honolulu Honolulu County Hawaii U.S.G.S. Honolulu, HI Quadrangle 1998 (7.5 Series) NAD83. The main house (5841 Kalanianaole Highway) is located at latitude: 21.282375, longitude: -157.731875. The second house (5839 Kalanianaole Highway) is located at latitude: 21.282154, longitude: -157.731941. These points were obtained on July 21, 2016, using Google Earth. There is no restriction on their release to the public. Present Owner: State of Hawaii Present Occupants: Department of Land and Natural Present Use: Vacant Significance: The Reynolds’ rental houses are architecturally significant as a good example of houses built in Hawaii in the late 1950s rendered in a modern style. They are also historically significant for the natural, ancient Hawaiian fishpond incorporated into the design of the property. Description: The two residences and garage built for Clark and Lucille Reynolds are located on a flat, ocean front 10,827-square-foot parcel, which runs from Kalanianaole Highway to the beach. Situated on a major, divided six-lane highway, the property is part of a string of residential properties that line the south, ocean side of the highway. The buildings are vacant and in poor condition. The property is secured along its street frontage by a chain link fence and a 5ʹ-0ʺ-high concrete masonry unity (CMU) wall, with a detached, single- car carport at the end of the CMU wall at the west side. The fence and wall were installed within the past twenty years. The portion of the carport that is on fastland sits on a lava rock foundation, while three 4ʺ-diameter pipe columns on 2ʹ-0ʺ square concrete piers support the portion that sits over the Lucas Spring, which is also called Kalauhaihai Fishpond. The 15ʹ- 0ʺ x 22ʹ-0ʺ garage area has a plank floor and tongue-and-groove walls. It has a composition-shingled flat roof that is skewed on the east side. At CLARK AND LUCILLE REYNOLDS RENTAL HOUSES HABS No. HI-576 (Page 2) the rear of the carport, five wood steps descend to a concrete sidewalk that runs along the west side of the property next to the Lucas Spring. The fishpond sits below grade and is lined on all sides by lava rock walls, which extend approximately 3ʹ-0ʺ high above the water level. The pond dominates the middle of the property. The main house (5841 Kalanianaole Highway) on the property is located at the northeast corner of the fishpond and the structure projects into the pond. The second house (5839 Kalanianaole Highway) sits on fastland and at the southwest corner of the pond. The main house is two stories in height and has a shake-shingled hip gablet roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails. The gablet is adorned with a Japanese lattice motif. The 33ʹ-0ʺ x 40ʹ-0ʺ house is L-shaped in plan and has a single-story carport set into its northeast corner. A shake-shingled shed roof runs around the house between the first and second stories. The portion of the house that extends over the fish pond is carried by eleven 8ʺ-thick concrete block posts on 2ʹ-0ʺ square piers. An approximately 4ʹ-0ʺ- wide lanai, sheltered by the shed roof, runs across the south side of the house and wraps around the west side. Its deck is made of eight 2ʺ x 6ʺ boards, and its east end wall is made of lava rock. One wood step leads up to the lanai at its east end. Four 4ʺ x 4ʺ columns rise from the south edge of the lanai to help support the shed roof. A post and rail railing runs between the columns and follows the lanai around the west side of the house. The railing has 54ʺ-high posts with beveled caps. There are three 2ʺ x 4ʺ rails with a 2ʺ x 4ʺ post dividing each of the lower spans in half. Three sets of three shoji doors, each with 36 panels, are located along the rear, south wall of the lanai. Two are along the south side of the building and the other on the west side. These all open on the 17ʹ-4ʺ x 29ʹ-2ʺ living room. A square, single-pane fixed window is in the south wall near the west end of the wall. The living room has an oak floor and canec ceiling. The floor features seven 4ʹ-0ʺ x 8ʹ-0ʺ panels of glass set into it, allowing the pond below to be seen. A 2ʹ-0ʺ x 6ʹ-3ʺ kitchen counter with a formica top separates the living room and kitchen. The 10ʹ–10ʺ x 12ʹ-2ʺ kitchen is galley-shaped, with cabinets lining the east and west sides of the room, and a sink and counter across the north wall at the rear. The rear counter continues, wrapping around to the east and west sides to make a U-shaped work space for food preparation and clean up. Two jalousie windows are above the sink, and a fixed single-pane window is in the west side wall, above the stove top that is built into the counter on that side. A narrow jalousie adjoins the fixed window to provide ventilation. The flooring is not original and the ceiling is also canec. An 8ʹ-10ʺ-long hallway in the north wall of the living room is an entry hall, which services the front entry with its double doors. To the east side of the entry hall is a wall, behind which a lateral-running stair ascends to the second floor. The stairway rises eight steps to a landing where it takes a quarter turn to the east and rises another six steps. At the top, a simple CLARK AND LUCILLE REYNOLDS RENTAL HOUSES HABS No. HI-576 (Page 3) balustrade with a 2ʺ x 4ʺ top rail and 2ʺ x 2ʺ balusters encircle the stairwell. Two pairs of sliding windows, each with three horizontal panes, form a corner window and illuminate the top of the stair. An L-shaped hallway accesses the three bedrooms that are situated on the south side of the second floor. The second floor features 8ʺ V-joint tongue-and-groove walls and canec ceilings in all rooms and the hall. The two corner bedrooms each have a bathroom to their north. The corner bedrooms both have a set of three sliding windows, each with three horizontal panes, in their south wall, and a pair of similar sliding windows in their side wall. The middle bedroom features a pair of jalousie windows in its south wall. The closets in all three bedrooms are enclosed by shoji doors. The bathroom at the north of the west side bedroom has two jalousie windows in its west side wall. It retains its original shower, vanity, and built-in closets. The other bathroom has one jalousie window in its north wall and its original corner shower. The east side of the house has concrete block walls on the first story. These blocks each measure 3.5ʺ x 7.5ʺ x 15.5ʺ in dimension. An approximately 20ʹ-0ʺ x 20ʹ-0ʺ carport, which is no longer accessible to automobiles due to the increase in elevation of Kalanianaole Highway, is at the north end of this side of the house. The attached, single-story carport has a front-facing gable, which is adorned with Japanese-style lattice work in the gable end. The carport has a poured concrete floor and a canec ceiling. A lava rock wall dominates the west side of the carport, and it has a wood gate with a shoji-like motif that leads to a concrete walkway that runs to the front door. The south wall of the carport has built-in tongue-and-groove storage closets, and the east wall is made of concrete block, continuing the line of the house. A hinged door in this wall leads to the side yard. Adjoining the carport on the south side is a large storage space. It has a door flanked on either side by a jalousie window in its east wall, as well as a pair of jalousie windows. The windows all have rounded concrete block sills. Another door enters the room from the south side, which is set in a vertical tongue-and- groove wall. A window opening, which is now boarded over, adjoins the door. The second house located on the south side of the property is also two stories in height and has a composition-shingled hipped roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails. Its composition-shingled shed roof wraps three-quarters the way around the house between the first and second stories. The 24ʹ-0ʺ x 38ʹ-0ʺ house sits on a poured-in-place concrete slab foundation and has concrete block walls on the first story and vertical tongue-and-groove on the second. The concrete block is the same as that used in the residence on the north side of the property. It follows an irregular, quasi-L-shaped footprint with the northeast corner having two jogs. The second house is entered from the west side through a set of non-original double doors.