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In the Hawaiian language, hale (pronounced HAH-leh) means house or home. Honolulu Hale means House of Honolulu. It is a registered National Historic Landmark with the United States Department of Interior.
Honolulu Hale was an idea of Joseph J. Fern. Before becoming a mayor-council type of government, Honolulu was administered by the Board of Supervisors. Since the creation of the now defunct County of Oahu, the Board of Supervisors met in city halls located in various downtown Honolulu locations. Supervisor Fern had a vision of a permanent home for the fledgling municipal government which had only been created in 1900 upon passage of the Hawaiian Organic Act. When the County of Oahu and the Board of Supervisors were dissolved in 1907 and established the City & County of Honolulu, Fern became its first mayor and began making preliminary plans for the construction of a city hall. Unfortunately, Fern died in 1920 of diabetes before he could persuade residents of the need for a permanent city hall. Mayor John H. Wilson, who was also the Honolulu Chapter President of the American Association of Engineers , carried on the dream.
Honolulu Hale was finally completed in 1928 by the firm Dickey, Wood, Miller, Rothwell, Kangeter & Lester. It was built in a California SpanishThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc colonial architectural style that was popular in the islands at the time. Its interior courtyard, staircase, and open ceiling were modeled after the BargelloBargello is a type of needlepoint embroidery which consists of upright flat stitches of different lengths. The name originates from a series of chairs found in the Bargello palace in Florence which had a flame stitch pattern. In general, the term 'Flame s in FlorenceFlorence ( Italian, Firenze is a city in the center of Tuscany, in north-west Italy, on the Arno river, with a population of around 400,000, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000. Florence is the capital of the region of Tuscany and briefly ( 18. Einar Peterson was commissioned to paint frescoes in the interior while Mario Valdastri was commissioned to install intricate stonework. In 1951Events January events January 9 United Nations headquarters officially opens ( New York City). January 15 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in We, two three-story wings were added to the original structure.