The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-22
CATHOLIC CONVENT.
PICTURESQUE STRUCTURE THAT
NEARs COMPLETION.
Designed by Newcomb and Dickey 1t
Adds Much to Local Architecture.
Owners Well Pleased

A structure that will add much to the
picturesqueness of Honolulu arChitec-
tuTe is now rapidly nearing completion
i'm the convent building, designed by
NewCOmb and Dickey and erected next
to the Roman Catholic Cathedral on the
east side of Fort street.
There yet remains another wing to
be added to the main building upon
which the plasterers have just con-
cluded their work and for this latter the
contracts have been already given out
50 that within a short time the whole
structure will be finished. The wing
will conform to the lines of the main
building. the whole facade presenting a
stately and ecclesiastical appearance
that reflects a great need of success
upon the architects. This is the first
building erected since the conjunction
of the two architects and its success has
called out many COngratulatOry remarks
from designers. builders and others
connected with the building craft in the
city. The fathers who have approved
the plans and watched the gradual erec-
ton are more than pleased with the
final result.
Taking into consideration the difficult
ties presented to the designers by the
long line Of unbroken facade that was
imperative, the architects succeed
ed most happily in overcoming the al
most inevitable sameness, In the rear
a long colOnnade of Moorish arches,
prominently ecclesiastical and reminis-
cent of the cool clOisters of a Spanish
mission, is so effective that one wishes
it practical to have the same principle
applied to the front of the building.
Cool and delightful with beautiful
masses Of color and shade under the
Hawaiian sunlight, the arches succeed
and panied to the tone of time stained
stone, the long clOister Is the great at
traction of the new convent.
In front the lines are not severely re-
gular and the style of architecture is
pleasingly composite. The cOrnice is
from Morocco where its identical coun-
terpaTt can be seen today. Otherwise
the facade is relieved by the somewhat
fiOrid aTabesques of Spanish renaissance
and the more decOrous and stately style
of an architecture that is practically
Tudor Gothic with its perpendicular
lines and fioretted finals of the fifteenth
century.
An entrance barred with a massive
gate has been used as the center OF the
scheme and bears much of the applied
ornamentatiOn of the building bringing
all eyes to . focus on the heraldic dis
play of the episcopal arms. Above the
door amid forid ornament a tall niche
stands ready for a statue yet to come
which will be typical of the convent and
it's use.
The building will, when entirely
finished be tinted a soft gray with just
a hint of green suggestive of weather
beaten stone. This will be applied to
the stucco-eement with which the whole
exterior has been finished. The en-
trance and it's immediate surroundings
alone viii hold a different hue of warm
er red. In the now practically completed
building are eleven class rooms eight
in the upper story, three large ones, one
of them music room In the lower, be-
sides the offices Of the mother superior
and the sisters. neat iron railing in
keeping with the general design will
protect the front while at the back the
present wooden building and ugly fenc-
ing will be pulled down and the grounds
gradually laid out, until the structure
bears the similitude of
"A convent with high and lofty walls
And gardens with their broad green
walks, where soft the footstep falls