Let's see...this next set of pictures was taken at the Mission Houses Museum in Honolulu. While I had never been, my mom had visited many years ago with my dad. The missionaries played a big part in the history of the Hawaiian Islands. To quote someone my dad used to always quote whenever the subject of the missionaries came up, "The missionaries came to do good and they did damn well!"
The house in the background is where the missionaries lived. Built in 1821 from pieces that were shipped around Cape Horn from Boston. It is the oldest wooden structure still standing in Hawaii!
The house in the foreground is the Chamberlain House built by a guy named Levi Chamberlain - the first secular agent in Hawaii. He built the house out of coral reef which they stamped to make look like brick. The house was used as a depository from which Chamberlain organized the disbursement of provisions for the entire "Sandwich Islands Mission."
This door struck me as so peculiar I had to take a picture of it. I found out later on during the tour that there used to be a pulley right above it which was used to haul...big stuff (I forget what) to the second floor.
A well!
Off in the corner of the yard there is a big hole covered with planks of wood. They used to catch rain water in it because the nearest fresh water stream was the Nu'uanu stream which was a mile or so away.
I thought this tree was cool.
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Across the street is Kawaiha'o Church. I don't know why I didn't take a picture of the church itself, but I got this pretty shot of the trees and sky...and a window. |
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