The Moana Hotel is a historic hotel building on the island of Oahu, at 2365 Kal? Kaua Avenue in Honolulu, Hawaii. Built at the end of the 19th century as the first hotel in Waikiki, Moana opened in 1901. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is currently part of a resort complex known as Moana Surfrider, A Westin Resort & amp; Spa .
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The wealthy Honolulu landowner Walter Chamberlain Peacock, in an effort to establish a good resort in the previously neglected Waikiki area of ​​Honolulu, incorporated the Moana Hotel Company in 1896. Working with designs by architect Oliver G. Traphagen and a $ 150,000 capital, The Lucas Your sister contractors completed the structure in 1901. Moana's construction marks the beginning of tourism in Waikiki, becoming the first hotel in the middle of bungalows and beach houses. In Hawaii, moana means open seas or oceans.
Moana's architecture was influenced by a popular European style at the time, with ionic columns and elaborate pebbles and plaster detailing the entire building. The Moana is designed with grand porte cochere on the side of the road and wide sea on the sea side. Some of the 75 guest rooms have a telephone and bathroom (unusual at the time), and the hotel features a billiards room, salon, main living room, reception area and library. Peacock installed the first electric powered elevator on the islands of Moana, which is still in use today. The design features of the original structure that survive to this day include extra wide alleys (to accommodate steam rods), high ceilings, and cross ventilation windows (to cool the room before air conditioning).
Moana was officially opened on March 11, 1901. His first guests were a group of Shriners, who paid $ 1.50 per night for their room. Peacock did not find success with his business and sold the hotel on May 2, 1905 to Alexander Young, a prominent businessman with other hotel ownership. After Young died in 1910, his Territorial Company operated the hotel until they went bankrupt in the Great Depression, and Matson Navigation Company bought the property in 1932 for $ 1.6 million.
Moana grew in tandem with Hawaii's tourism popularity. Two floors were added in 1918, along with the Italian Renaissance-style concrete wings on each side of the hotel, creating the H shapes seen today.
In the 1930s, the hotel is known as the Moana-Seaside Hotel & amp; Bungalow The bungalows are an extra building built on a large piece of land just across from Kalakaua Avenue where Putri Ka is inahau land? Iulani has been found.
The outside look of the hotel has changed little over the years, including "updates" to designs such as Art Deco in the 1930s and Bauhaus in the 1950s.
From 1935 to 1975, Moana's page hosted the Hawaii Calls live radio broadcast. Legend has it that listeners think the hiss of radio transmissions when the waves break on the shore. While studying this, the host instructed the voice of a man running to the shore to really record the sound, which became the subject of the show.
In 1952, Matson built a new hotel adjacent to Moana on the southeast side, called SurfRider Hotel. In 1953, Matson destroyed Moana's bungalows across the street and, two years later, opened the new Kaiulani Princess Hotel on the site. Matson sold all of their Waikiki hotel properties to Sheraton Company in 1959.
Sheraton sold Moana and SurfRider to Japanese industrialist Kenji Osano and Kyo-Ya Company in 1963, although Sheraton continues to manage it. In 1969, Kyo-Ya built a new hotel towering on the northwestern side of Moana. They named it the Surfrider Hotel. The older SurfRider Hotel on the other side is converted into part of Moana, named Diamond Head Wing.
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In 1989, a $ 50 million restoration (designed by Hawaiian architect Virginia D. Murison) restored Moana to a 1901 appearance and incorporated the 1969 Sheraton Surfrider Hotel and 1952 SurfRider Hotel building with the Hotel Moana 1901 building into a seaside resort, Sheraton Moana Surfrider. The new resort includes 793 rooms (including 46 suites), a freshwater swimming pool, three restaurants, a beach bar and a poolside snack bar. This property has been recognized with the President's Historic Preservation Award, the National Conservation Honor Award, the Renaissance Hawaiian Award, and the International Golden Bell Awards Sales and Marketing Hotel. The hotel's main historic section, The Banyan Wing, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The hotel became the base of operations for about 24 White House staff who accompanied President Barack Obama to the Winter White House at the Plantation Estate during the Christmas visit.
In 2007, Starwood Hotels & amp; Resorts, the managing company of Moana, was renamed the hotel from the Sheraton Hotel to the Westin Hotel. The name of the hotel becomes Moana Surfrider, A Westin Resort & amp; Spa. The wing of 1901 is now known as the Historic Banyan Wing. The 1952 SurfRider Hotel building now is the Diamond Wing. The 1969 Hotel Surfrider Building is now called Tower Wing.
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Tree banyan
In the middle of the yard Moana Surfrider stands a large banyan tree. The Indian banyan tree was planted in 1904 by Jared Smith, Director of Experimental Station of the Department of Agriculture. When planted, the tree is almost seven feet tall and about seven years old. It now stands 75 feet tall and stretches 150 feet in the yard.
In 1979, this historic tree was one of the first to be listed on the Rare and Extraordinary Tree List of Hawaii. It has also been selected by the Board of Trustees of America the Beautiful Fund as the site for the appointment of the Hawaii Millennium Landmark Tree, which selects one historic tree in each country for protection in the new millennium.
Hotel lore
Rich and famous
As soon as the Hotel Moana was opened, a flood of tourists from the unflowing United States flowed through its doors. The most famous guest came in 1920. Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VIII, reproduced around the property of Moana Hotel and reportedly fell in love with the private dock, from which he often plunged into the sea.
In August 1922, author Agatha Christie and her husband, Colonel Archie Christie, remained on holiday. They traveled the world as part of the Dominion Mission from the Royal Exposition of Britain, promoting the exhibition to be held in England in 1924.
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References
Further reading
- Stan Cohen. 1996. The Illustrated History of Sheraton Moana Surfrider , Publishing Company of Illustrated History, Inc.
- Robert W. P. Cutler. 2003. The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford , Stanford University Press.
- Glen Grant. 1996. Waik? K? Yesteryear , Mutual Publishing Co.
- Don Hibbard and David Franzen. 1995. Views of Diamond Head: Royal Residence to Urban Resort , Editions Ltd.
- George S. Kanahele. 1996. Waik? K ?, 100 BC to 1900 AD: An Outstanding Story , University of Hawaii ? i Press.
- Pukui, Mary K., Samuel H. Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini. 1976. Place of Hawaiian Names ? i , Revision & amp; an expanded edition. Univ. Press Hawaii ? i, Honolulu. 289 pp.
- Schaefers, Allison (January 25, 2007). "Starwood redo gives Moana a new branding". Honolulu Star-Bulletin . Retrieved January 25, 2007 . Ã,
External links
- Official website
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