Joseph W. Podmore Building
In 1907, Peter Cushman Jones, the property owner, donated the land and building to the local Board of Missions, who used it as their headquarters until the Mission Memorial Building was constructed in 1916. Their monthly newspaper, The Friend, was published in the print shop upstairs. Other notable tenants include the Honolulu Advertiser and the original Honolulu office of DHL Air Cargo.
Built of dark, locally quarried lava rock in a simple Richardsonian Romanesque style, the only arch is above the side doorway on Merchant Street. The main entrance is on the corner, behind a stone column. Decorative elements include a stone balustrade along the roofline, lintels and sills of lighter stone on the second-story windows, stone bands of alternating sizes (8 and 16 inches), and light reddish mortar lines.
Notes
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Joseph W. Podmore Building in Honolulu, USA". GPSmyCity. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "Joseph W. Podmore Building". Clio. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ Yoklavich (2003), p. 135
- ^ "Chronicling America: About this newspaper: The friend". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
References
- Yoklavich, Ann K. (2003), "Podmore Building" in David Cheever and Scott Cheever, Pōhaku: The Art & Architecture of Stonework in Hawaiʻi (Honolulu: Editions Limited), p. 135. ISBN 978-0-915013-23-4