The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-06-22
Plans For Seven Fine Buildings
viii Be Presented At Meeting
w. To Be Held Thursday
LARGE CONCERNS EMPLOY
4 LONE OF BEST DESIGNERS
Conformity Of Architecture Would
Modernize and Beautify Homo
luIu's Down Town Section

80 hhs hVT' pulldlhSS lHal VILE cost
perhaps millions of dollars and will
give Honolulu business center uni.
form and harmonious in style and type
Of, architecture will be presented TO
the owners of the premises on which
they are TO be erected at meeting Of
those cp neTs Which Is to lie held
Thursday morning. There are seven
sets, of plans for seven new buildings
which are TO be erected by and are TO
house seven Of Honolulu 5 most import.
ant concerns and in some instances
other firms us well. They mean the
lTst step toward a modern business
district for the city and one from
which the homogeneous and the insult.
able in architecture are TO be elimin.
ated. ii -. w.. .... ..-..
Louis Christian Mullgardt, the fam
ed San Francisco architect, arrived on
the Matsonia yesterday morning and
brought with him the plans for The
seven business buildings that are TO
90 up on the Mahuka site and the land
formerly owned by the Spreckles es-
tate, the buildings which are TO be the
new business center of Honolulu, on
King, Merchant, Bishop and Queen
Streets, and are TO modeTnize it as
nothing else has ever done. He hns
prepared these plans for @. Brewer &
Company, Theo. II. Davies & Company,
NJ. McInerny, Ltd Castle & Cooke,
Bishop 4 Company, the First National
Bank and the Hawaiian Electric Com
pany. ~. U
Louis Christian Muilgardt is un-
| doubtedly the best known architect on
| the Pacific Coast and one Of the hest
known on the American continent. He
vas designer of the famous Court of
Abundance and of several others of
he finest buildings in the San Fran.
isco exposition grounds and he has
designed some of the largest and fn-
st buildings Of the business section Of
'nn Francisco. He was over here
ONE months ago and was then commits
ioned 10 present plans by the seven
,wners of the seven properties upon
which the new business center is TO be
.ocated. These public spirited citizens
lesire n conformity and harmony of
architecture that will add greatly TO
he charm and beauty of Honolulu.
They got together on this point and
hen secured the services of the man
ieemed most capable and best fitted
which is desired. ,., aG
Z "Much ms l should like to tell the
public of the plans l bring with me,
[ cannot do so until after / have pre-
sented them TO the gentlemen for
whom they have been prepared, said
M Mullgardt to The Advertiser yes
terdayJ There is to be meeting Of
these gentlemen Thursday morning and
then l expect something will be given
through the papers to the people Of
Honolulu, something that wip interest
and please. them. ~ jE ...a,
"This do want TO say, though, I"
ne continued, "and that is Honolulu
has every right TO be proud Of these
nublic spirited citizens. They are big
men and they are planning to do big
things. They are showing a civic pride
and a spirit that is most commendable,
that is a, credit to them and to their
home city" .,. u s.*..,. d..
Mr.. Mullgardt has brought still 9th.
err plans with him. They are for Il
home for Mrs. Selma M. Smith at
Black Point, and next 70 the proper.
ty of former Governor Carter, II is
to be a beautiful country place and
is to be erected, in the near future
when Mr.. Mullgsrdt win make an.
other. visit to Honolulu. -. IT.
Speaking of conformity and harmo.
ny in architecture, Mr.. Mullgardt says
that San Frantisco has made some
thing of a start in il since the earth,
quake and FIRE hut that the Bay City
has only just begun its rebuilding and
only just begun to put such plan in
operation. He. forecasts a better, big
ger and more beautiful San Francis
co, Jewel city of the Pacific Coast.
To n question relative to war con
ditions on the mainland the noted ar.
chitect says that the country was
| awake to what is before il and that
California and the Pacific Coast had
wakened with the rest of the nation
He pointed to the whirlwind finish OF
the campaign on behalf of the Liberty
Loan, how San Francisco and its re,
serve bank had come out of the ruck
from behind and in the closing DAYS
had over subscribed for the loan. OF
course the. whole Pacific Coast had ia
help in the doing Of this. California,
too, he says, has furnished more than
its proportion, as compared with the
rest Of the country, Of volunteers and
enlistments in both army and navy and
Is we j IN in registration for the selec.
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