Kauikeaouli Hale

Kauikeaouli Hale is a district courthouse for the Island of Oʻahu in Hawaii.

It is located at 1111 Alakea Street between downtown Honolulu and the Hawaii Capital Historic District at 21°18′32″N 157°51′31″W / 21.30889°N 157.85861°W / 21.30889; -157.85861. Its lower floors house the courts of the first circuit, covering the City and County of Honolulu,[1] and upper floors have offices of some support departments of the Hawaii Supreme Court.[2] It is adjacent to the Hawaii State Art Museum.

On August 18, 2023, the building was closed due to structural damages.[3]

In the Hawaiian language, hale means "house"[4] and Kauikeaouli was the birth name of the Kingdom of Hawaii’s King Kamehameha III (1813–1854). The art displayed at Kauikeaouli Hale includes:[5]

  • Aged Tree, a 1976 wood, copper and bronze sculpture by Satoru Abe
  • Bear and Cubs, a 1973 black granite sculpture by Benny Bufano
  • Hawaiian Mountain Series I, a 1974 ceramic sculpture by Bob Flint
  • My Father's Eyes Have Seen What I Dreamed, a 1971 ceramic, wood and resin sculpture by Donald Harvey
  • Family Structure, a 1971 wood sculpture by Ken Shutt

References

  1. ^ "Oʻahu - First Circuit". State of Hawaii. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  2. ^ "Judiciary directory" (PDF). State of Hawaii. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 15, 2011. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  3. ^ "Honolulu District Courthouse to be closed due to structural damage". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. August 17, 2023. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
  4. ^ Mary Kawena Pukui; Samuel Hoyt Elbert (2003). "lookup of hale". in Hawaiian Dictionary. Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library, University of Hawaii Press. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  5. ^ "Kauikeaouli Hale". Art Inventories Catalog of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved November 23, 2010.


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