A&M Prof, Student Help In Isle
THE BATTALION
Thursday, August 18, 1966
College Station, Texas
Page 5
EDITOR’S NOTE: The fol
lowing story is about a Texas
A&M student and professor
who are working in Honolulu,
Hawaii, on an architectural pro
ject. The story is reprinted
from the Honolulu Star-Bul
letin and Advertiser.
Restorationists deal in draw
ings, not prose, and eight archi
tectural students are preparing
precise, measured drawings of a
number of Island buildings as the
first step in restoring them to
bygone splendor.
The students, under the direc
tion of Melvin M. Rotsch, profes
sor of history of architecture at
Texas A&M University, have just
completed the only measured
drawings of lolani Palace, the
only royal palace in America.
Charles Peterson, prominent
Philadelphia architect and one of
the nation’s leading restoration
ists, described the Palace draw
ings as “excellence and very pro
fessional.”
The students are here under the
auspices of the Historic American
Buildings Survey, which is under
the administration of the Na
tional Park Service. Several of
them will leave for Lahaina,
Maui, to work with the Lahaina
Restoration Foundation in pre
paring data there.
“These kinds of drawings are
essential,” Peterson said. “Re
storationists work with drawings,
not words.”
A minutely detailed drawing of
the Palace was prepared by E.
Davis Chauviere, 20, of Waco,
Tex. He is a senior at Texas
A&M.
For the past month, Glenn
Gunter of Kailua, and Ronald
Saiki of Honolulu, both Universi
ty of Hawaii students, and Alan
Maurigame of Kauai, a student
at Montana State University,
have scampered around the Pal
ace, including the roof-top, gath
ering measurements for Chau
viere.
The Junior League is raising
funds for actual restoration of
the Palace. State Comptroller
Val U. Marciel administers some
State funds for the project.
The League is selling advance
tickets to the film “Hawaii” to
help raise money for the restora
tion. A spokesman said it is
hoped that the Palace will be con
verted into a “lively” building,
not one with a museum atmos
phere.
Peterson said he would like to
gee the Palace restored to its
condition in 1893, the year the
monarchy ended. He said it did
not change much between 1882—
the year it was completed — and
1893.
“Electric lights were substi
tuted for gas about 1886,” he said.
There used to be a high stone
wall around the Palace, which
was tom down during a rebel
lion, he said. It wasn’t restored
then because “the haoles were
afraid the king could defend him
self.”
Peterson would like to have the
furnishings in the Palace in 1893
on display there, when it is re
stored. Much, however, probably
is lost forever.
While climbing around the at
tic last week, a yellowed House
Journal, vintage 1911, was discov
ered in a room open to the weath
er and bugs. It contained on
Page 906 a resolution which
showed how Palace furnishings
were lost.
“There is now stored in the
Archives Building,” the resolu
tion noted, “a certain chest of
silverware that was used in the
Palace during the reign of His
Majesty, King Kalakaua.
“Whereas, no good purpose can
be served by retaining said chest
of silverware in the custody of
the government . . . the Board of
Commissioners of Public Arch
ives is hereby authorized and
directed to surrender and deliver
to said Honorable Jonah K. Ka-
lanianaole the said chest of sil
verware . . .”
Before the architectural stu
dents and Rotsch complete their
summer work, they hope to have
prepared measured drawings on
the old Courthouse, Chamberlain
House, lolani Barracks, Washing-
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ton Palace, the old Honolulu post
office and the Palace coronation
pavilion and bandstand.
Jack E. Bousher of Northfield,
N.J., one of the nation’s top pho
tographers of historic buildings,
is due here soon to take pictures
of Aliiolani Hale, Mission House,
Mission Printing Shop, the Mis
sion Adobe Schoolhouse, Kukui
area shrines and CinCPac Head
quarters at Makalapa.
“Most people don’t think of
CinCPac Headquarters as his
toric because it is a recent build
ing,” Peterson said.
“But at no time has anything
in Hawaii been so important in
world affairs.”
Peterson has a rule of thumb
for buildings worth saving. It
goes like this:
“Don’t let them pull anything
unless they are committed to put
up something better. And it isn’t
better because it’s newer or big
ger.”
“Don’t be led astray by pretty
drawings of what is planned. In
my lifetime, I’ve sold so many
bum ideas with pretty drawings
that I’m suspicious of every one
of them.
“In Hawaii you must especially
watch out for the guy who draws
pretty coconut palms.”
STUDENTS AND ROTSCH CHECK BUILDING FOR RESTORATION. (Photos by Hono
lulu Advertiser)
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a year.
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ROTSCH.
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