Hawaiian Pineapple Company (HAPCO) Ltd. House No. 26-2, 623 Lanai Avenue, Lanai City, Maui County, HI
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Significance: Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., or HAPCo House No. 26-2 at 623 Lanai Avenue is a double house type plantation housing building located within the proposed Lanai City Business Country Town (Lanai City BCT) historic district. HAPCo House No. 26-2 is significant as a plantation period residence that was constructed exclusively by Japanese contractors under the leadership of Kikuichi Honda. Its double house configuration is an important and rare vernacular house type in Maui County and in the State of Hawaii. Lanai City BCT was the first planned community in the Territory of Hawaii. Today it is the last intact plantation town in Maui County, and the last intact example of Garden City planning and Hawaii Sugar Planters Association Village planning standards in Maui County, and one of the last in the State of Hawaii.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2009
Survey number: HABS HI-561
Building/structure dates: 1923 Initial Construction
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