page_title: Samuel Northrup Castle
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Northrup Castle / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Mrs. Mary Tenney Castle (1819–1907) was the second wife of Samuel Northrop Castle who founded Castle &amp; Cooke. Her estate donated a home to use as Hawaii's first Kindergarten, and another for an orphanage. The foundation continues to make donations, including the building where Barack Obama attended fifth grade.
context_page_description: Samuel Northrup Castle was a businessman and politician in the Kingdom of Hawaii.
context_section_description: Castle died on July 14, 1894 in Honolulu. Atherton to over the helm of Castle and Cooke 
  Most of the family is buried across the street from the homestead at Kawaiahaʻo Church.
  The Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation was founded by the family. Mary Castle became known as "Mother Castle" because of her support for education. Many of the early grants were to schools based on the ideas of John Dewey, who was a colleague of her son-in-law Mead.  The Henry and Dorothy Castle Memorial Kindergarten was established honoring her son and granddaughter in their former homestead.
  In 1940 the memorial funded a preschool teaching facility at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
  A more modern and larger house was built starting in 1898 in the Mānoa Valley at 21°18′44″N 157°49′0″W by the family. It was designed by architects Clinton Briggs Ripley and Charles William Dickey, with many additional buildings added through the years. Johnny Wilson was an Engineer for some of the walls. When Mary Castle died in 1907, the Mānoa house was converted into an orphanage. In 1924 some of the property became one of suburban Honolulu's first housing subdivisions, called Castle Terrace. Other parts of the property became the home of the Pan-Pacific Union, founded by Alexander Hume Ford. It was torn down in 1941.
  In 1907 a building built at Punahou School was named Castle Hall with funds from the estate.
  The original Castle Hall burned in 1911, and a new one was built in 1913. Originally used as a girls' dormitory, it was later converted into classrooms for fifth and sixth grades. Former President Barack Obama was a student in Castle Hall for his fifth grade.
caption: "Mother" Castle 1898
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