Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-30
by c. W. ASHFORD

Circuit Judge, Ftret Circuit.
Almost any malihfni can draw COM
PARSONS between the architectural
conditions In Honolulu today and
those Of five years ago. but my OBJ
seryation OF these conditions extends
back almost 35 years, and ] find Il in
creasingly difficult as age draws In
upon me, TO get away from the con-
sidefation Of the more remote past
Il would far exceed the bounds Of Q
sketch like this 20 describe Honolulu.
IN an architectural sense, as / first
saw t. Suffice 10 say that the makai
side Of Queen street, along which I
drove in one Of the oldest-fashioned
hacks from my point Of landing at
Brewers wharf, TO Fort street, pre-
scented none Of the. evidences Of COM
mercial progress observable there to-
day. The old Masonic temple, at the
corner OF Fort and Queen streets, was
then standing, as now, as also the
st0ne-faced building beside II. The
site OF the present Hackfeld building
was then the rather untidy t1ont yard
cf what had been the Capitol building.
then occupied by HackteId & Com
pany. In this yard a few coconut
trees were growing on Fort street,
shove the Wilder building at the cor
ner Of Queen was Wiider's lumber
yard, and two 6ecrepit frame build
ings where the Bark OF Hawaii build,
ing now stauds Other wooden shan.
ties lined the nalzai side OF Merchant
street 70 thu Waikiki boundary OF the
present Stnngenwald building. On
the Mcinerny corner was an especial.
~ decnepit looking wooden building.
which was not replaced by the present
building until 1887, and o part OF the
Merchant street front OF the present
McInerny block was then occupied BY
coral building which projected into
the street q considerable distance, and
was occupied by Hyman Bros. Across
the road. where the Henry Water
house Trust Company now Is, Arthur
w. Richardson (now Of Hilo) was con-
Quoting & haberdashery IN wooden
building Of two stories. This, and
other antique structures on the site
Of the present Campbell block were
demolished during that summer
(le68). and the building Of the present
block followed.
a View 81 King Street
King street, eva from Fort was an
aggregation Of unlovely wooden struc-
lures, and q small broken-down plan
ing mill stood on the corner now
gfaced BY the McCandless building. A
little, squatty red brick building stood
where the First National Bank Is now
heated, and here H 3. Mcintyre 4
BRO. conducted grocery store.
Thence TO the Brewer block (Honolu-
II Photo Col. only the most unpreten.
fIouf Of buildings stood, In one OF
which Henry May conducted large
grocery store. The eva side Of Fort
street. from the Mclnerny corner TO
che present Hhlers store. was no bet
I6r than the above descriptions indf-
cate. On the present so-calied MANU-
IA site. Levers q Cooke had their
main lumber yard. The old Bethel
church stood near the corner 81 Bethel
and King. and malnf Of 4 was q high
and untidy looking frame building
used a. the Seamens home. which
vas later burned, together (if my me-
1ory cerves) with the Bethel church
was not until 1892 that the present
Cnfral Union church. the ptpneer
ndern church edifice Of the city. was
bepn. Where the present Pantheon
plok stands was Jim Dodd's Pan
then saloon. with q hack stand and
staRs Where the Clarion building
STAINS fHotol and Fort. Charles J..
tiecll conducted readysmade cloth
and lberdeshery husiness IN atough
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