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O'ahu - Honolulu - Capitol District: 'Iolani Palace
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s 'Iolani Palace, located at 364 South King Street, was built between 1879 and 1882 as the official residence for King Kalākaua and Queen Kapi'olani, and then late for Queen Lili'uokalani. The only royal palace used in such capacity by a reigning monarch in the United States, following the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893, it was used in succession as the capitol building for the Provisional Government, Republic, Territory, and State of Hawai'i until 1969 at which point it was restored and opened to the public as a museum in 1978. The current structure replaced a one-story wooden building called Hanailoia built for Princess Victoria Kamāmalu and purchased by King Kamehameha III when he moved his capital from Lahaina to Honolulu in 1845. During Kamehameha V's reign, the name was changed to 'Iolani Palace, literally meaning royal hawk. The 'Iolani Barracks, designed by Theodore Heuck, were added in 1871, to house the royal guards. When David Kalākaua assumed the throne, he ordered the original palace razed and commissioned a new one to be fashioned after the modern palaces he visited throughout Europe. The brick and concrete-faced building was designed by Thomas J. Baker, Charles J. Wall and Isaac Moore in a unique style known as American Florentine at a lavish cost of over $340,000. It measures 140-feet by 100-feet and rises two stories over a raised basement to a height of 54-feet with four corner towers and two center towers rising to a height of 76-feet. The first floor is dominated by a grand hall, facing a staircase made of koa wood, that adjoins to a throne room, a blue meeting room and a dining room. Upstairs are a private library and bedrooms. The palace was wired with both electricity and telephones, before even the White House. Upon the overthrow of the monarchy by the Committee of Safety in 1893, troops of the newly the newly formed Provisional Government of Hawaiʻi took control of ʻ'Iolani Palace, which a few months later was renamed the Executive Building for the Republic of Hawai'i. Government officials auctioned off any furniture or furnishing unsuitable for government operations. Queen Liliʻuokalani was imprisoned for nine months in a small room on the upper floor, where she crafted a quilt that is still on display, after the second of the Wilcox rebellions in 1895. Her trial was held in the former throne room. National Register #66000293 (1966) Hawaii Capital Historic District National Register #78001020 (1978)


Coat of Arms
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The coat of arms for the Kingdom of Hawai`i, which was used in the design of the state seal and state coat of arms, is placed on the gates to the palace grounds. Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono. Translation,The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness. The Hawaii motto is generally attributed to King Kamehameha III who presided over the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1825 until his death in 1854. The Hawaii Kingdom Coat of Arms, designed by native Hawaiian Timothy Haalilio, was adopted as the official coat-of-arms in 1845. At the very center is the triangular flag of ancient Hawaiian Chiefs, a symbol for kapu and place of refuge consisting of pulo'ulo'u and crossed spears on flag. The kapu, a tapa covered ball on a stick, was carried before a Chief as a symbol of taboo. This triangular flag, or puwalu, represents a flag raised at sea above the sail of the chief's canoe and symbolized the Law of the Splintered Paddle or Mamala Hoe Kanawai decreed by Kamehameha I, circa 1782, to protect travelers from wanton attack. The first and fourth quarters of the center seal contain white, red, and blue stripes, alternating in color for the national banner and believed to represent the eight largest islands in the Hawaiian chain. The second and third quarters contain a kapu; the tapa covered ball and stick. Above the royal center seal is a crown, on the left, Hawaiian Chief Kamanawa, wearing a feather cloak and helmet, bearing a spear, and on the right, Hawaiian Chief Kameeiamoku, in the same dress but bearing a kahili. Both face inward toward the Royal Seal. The two figures are thought to represent the warrior twins instrumental in Kamehameha I endeavors to unite the Hawaiian Islands.


苹果和菠萝 * Apple + Pineapple: Two Fruits, One Mission
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Please say hello to my new friend Apple in Shanghai... Today Apple + Pineapple visited the home of long ago Hawaiian kings and queens! ʻIolani Palace is in downtown Honolulu. It's the only royal palace in the United States used as an official residence by a reigning monarch. Two monarchs governed from ʻIolani Palace - King Kalākaua, and his sister and successor, Queen Liliʻuokalani. After the monarchy was overthrown in 1893, the building was used as the capitol building for the Provisional Government, Republic, Territory, and State of Hawaiʻi until 1969. The palace was restored and opened to the public as a museum in 1978. The fictional TV series, Hawaii Five-O, and its current remake Hawaii Five-0, have state police headquarters based here in ʻIolani Palace. twitter


Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono
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The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. The Hawaii State motto, and a phrase associated with the Kingdom. The State Seal as a whole is in fact based heavily upon the royal heraldry, seen here, featuring chiefs in the traditional red & gold feather cloaks, and carrying a kahili, a feathered standard. We can see numerous elements drawn from European heraldry, including the overall arrangement of the crest, the division of the central elements into quarters, and the swirling motifs, along with the shape/form fo the crown. The red, white, and blue was adopted by the Hawaiian Kingdom in thanks to, and honor of, Queen Victoria and the UK, who gave them back their sovereignty, and treated them on the whole quite nicely after one sail captain claimed the islands for England without that being the wishes of the Queen.


Palace Gates
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To enhance the prestige of Hawai`i overseas and to mark her status as a modern nation, the Hawaiian government appropriated funds to build a modern palace. The cornerstone for `Iolani Palace was laid on December 31, 1879 with full Masonic rites. Despite a quick succession of three architects, work progressed at the hands of locally obtained contractors, artisans, and laborers. The building was complete enough by August of 1882 for King Kalakaua to hold a luncheon for members of the Legislative Assembly. In December of that year King Kalakaua and Queen Kapi`olani took up residence in their new home.


Queen Lili`uokalani Imprisonment Room
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In 1895, an abortive attempt by Hawaiian royalists to restore Queen Lili`uokalani to power resulted in the queen's arrest. She was forced to sign a document of abdication that relinquished all her future claims to the throne. Following this, she endured a humiliating public trial before a military tribunal in her former throne room. After her release from `Iolani Palace, the Queen remained under house arrest for five months at her private home, Washington Place. For another eight months she was forbidden to leave O`ahu before all restrictions were lifted.


`Iolani Palace
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On the front veranda the plaster and cement work, both decretive and plain, which covers the basic brick walls inside and on the facing outer walls, was done by the Honolulu firm of John Bowler and Company. The iron balustrades of the upper verandah were fabricated by the Honolulu Iron Works and the cast iron columns were sent to the Islands from San Francisco. Wooden casts for the Hawaiian coat of arms and the other panels on the ceilings of the verandas were handcrafted by a Chinese woodworker, Chun Moke.


`Iolani Palace
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David Kalakaua is remembered as the Merrie Monarch because he was a patron of culture and arts, and enjoyed socializing and entertaining. Although the King and his Queen, Kapi`olani, used several residences, `Iolani Palace was the official residence where they performed official functions, received dignitaries and luminaries from around the world, and entertained often and lavishly. It was the center of social and political life for the Kingdom of Hawai`i.


King’s Bedroom
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King’s Bedroom with dresser from A.H. Davenport Co. of Boston. The majolica vase in the center of the King’s Bedroom was made in 1867 by the English firm of Minton. It is one of the only ten ‘Prometheus’ vases known to exist. It was preserved by the family of Prince David Kawānanakoa and Queen Kawanaanakoa, grand nephew of King Kalākaua and Queen Kapi’olani. (No Photography was allowed inside the Palace).


`Iolani Palace
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The new `Iolani Palace was outfitted with the most up-to-date amenities, including indoor plumbing. Gas chandeliers installed when the Palace was first built were replaced by electric lighting five years later (less than seven years after Edison invented the first practical incandescent bulb). The King also installed a modern communications system that included the recently invented telephone.


Sunrise from the Iolani Palace
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Kona weather this morning gave us some interesting cloud patterns at sunrise during my morning run around the Capitol district. It's the the festive winter holiday shopping season so the red/green light globes are up, and the Season's Greetings sign is visible across the street. A TrueHDR shot on my iPhone 4, posted on instagr.am/p/gek2/


Statue of Lili'uokalani, Iolani Palace, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
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Born on September 2, 1838 as Lydia Lili‘u Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamaka‘eha. On April 10, 1877, Princess Lydia Kamaka‘eha was named heir apparent and received the title Lili‘uokalani. In 1891, she assumed the throne, but was forced to surrender the Hawaiian Kingdom to the United States in 1893. On November 11, 1917, Lili‘uokalani died of a stroke at the age of 79.


Banyan Tree, Barh (Ficus bengalensis)
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Barh tree has large leaves and small blossoms followed by cherry like scarlet fruit which furnishes food for birds and monkeys. A fruit, much like the edible fig, grows on the banyan tree, but it is not good to eat. The wood of the banyan tree is soft and porous. Its white, sticky latex is used to prepare birdlime, which hunters use in capturing birds.


One of These is not Like the Other.
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The Iolani Palace was constructed in 1871 in the Hawaiian Regional style (think of Second Empire in this case). The Iolani Palace is on the National Register #66000293, and is also a National Historic Landmark.


Sunrise at the Coronation Stand
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TrueHDR shot flic.kr/p/91ERv3 processed with Instagram Earlybird filter: instagr.am/p/jeP6/


Iolani Palace, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
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Built by King David Kalakaua in 1882, and served as the royal residence until 1893 when the monarchy was abolished. It then served as the state capitol until 1969.


Kanyaku Imin Celebration
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125th Anniversary of Kanyaku Imin honoring all AJA Americans of Japanese Ancestry (442nd RCT) WII Veterans Iolani Palace on June 5, 2010


Kanyaku Imin Celebration
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125th Anniversary of Kanyaku Imin honoring all AJA Americans of Japanese Ancestry (442nd RCT) WII Veterans Iolani Palace on June 5, 2010


Kanyaku Imin Celebration
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125th Anniversary of Kanyaku Imin honoring all AJA Americans of Japanese Ancestry (442nd RCT) WII Veterans Iolani Palace on June 5, 2010


Kanyaku Imin Celebration
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125th Anniversary of Kanyaku Imin honoring all AJA Americans of Japanese Ancestry (442nd RCT) WII Veterans Iolani Palace on June 5, 2010