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This plantation-style cabin in Halemanu has the 'ohia porch railings of the earlier rustic vernacular style and a corrugated metal roof.
Koke'e Design Guidelines
The Division of State Parks commissioned Mason Architects to prepare Design Standards and Guidelines for the Historic Koke'e, Halemanu and Pu'u ka Pele Camp Lots, Koke'e and Waimea Canyon State Parks, Kauai. The Guidelines are intended to assist lessees in the rehabilitation of these historic recreational residences and ensure that new structures will be constructed in a complementary style. The standards, guidelines, and review procedures will become part of lease agreement conditions from 2007 on.
- The State began to lease camp lots in the forest reserve in 1918.
- Generations of local families spent their summers among the cool forests, meadows, and streams at the 3500-foot elevation.
- They leased the land at $10, and later $20, per acre per year, on the condition that they improved the land by building cabins and planting trees.
- In 2005 the Division designated the camp lots as a historic district, which has been nominated for inclusion on the National Register.
- Of the 137 lots, 114 contain cabins. Of those, 72 are considered historically and architecturally significant.
- The early cabins usually offered only shelter and sleeping space. Kitchens and outhouses were separate, and showers were in streams.
- The Koke'e rustic vernacular style was characterized by:
- Single walls of unpainted board-and batten siding, often with hinged wooden flaps over windows.
- Shingled gable roofs and porch railings of 'ohia logs and branches.
- Native rocks used in chimneys, fireplaces, and post-and-pier foundations.
- By 1925 some cabins were built in the plantation style and often contained several bedrooms, parlor, kitchen, and bathroom. This style features:
- Hipped roofs.
- Painted tongue-and-groove vertical siding.
- Decorative attic vents.
Photos: MAI.
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Cabins similar to this one were built in the late 19th century by friends of the Knudsen family, who leased 100 square miles from the Kingdom of Hawaii and reforested the area as well as hiked, hunted, and fished in it.
This Koke'e house is built in the rustic vernacular style, but on a grander scale, with a double-pitched roof, deep eaves, and more formally patterned ohia porch railings.
Hinged wooden flaps could be lowered over windows.
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