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 Hawaii and the Hawaii Capital Historic District at 21°18′32″N 157°51′31″W / 21.30889°N 157.85861°W. 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.
In the Hawaiian language, hale means "house"[3] and Kauikeaouli was the birth name of the Kingdom of Hawaii’s King Kamehameha III (1813–1854). The art displayed at Kauikeaouli Hale includes:[4]
- 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
- ^ "Oʻahu - First Circuit". State of Hawaii. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
- ^ "Judiciary directory" (PDF). State of Hawaii. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Kauikeaouli Hale". Art Inventories Catalog of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
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