BGuthrie Photos: HI -- Honolulu -- State Capitol

HI -- Honolulu -- State Capitol:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SCAPHI_041028_004.JPG: Washington Place. This is the historic home of Hawai'i's Governors. (The current governor decided to not live here and it is, instead, a state museum.) It was the residence of the last reigning monarch, Queen Lili'uokalani.
2. SCAPHI_041028_024.JPG: Father Damien. Joseph Damien de Veuster was known for his work on the island of Moloka'i where he tended to leprosy-stricken victims. He worked there for 16 years before contracted the disease himself and dying from it in 1889..
3. SCAPHI_041028_028.JPG: The state seal, adopted in 1959, has two figures in it. On the left is King Kamehameha I, on the right is the Liberty Goddess.
4. SCAPHI_041028_053.JPG: The guide said that the inside courtyard was used by legislators who would come out and talk to citizens. The upper tier is designed to represent ancient boat bows coming into the islands.
5. SCAPHI_041028_057.JPG: This floor show the "Aquarius" pool, symbolizing the changing colors of Hawai'i's oceans.
6. SCAPHI_041028_062.JPG: The current governor, Linda Lingle, is a Republican, white, Jewish woman. The guide (who worked for her) said the Democrats had gotten sloppy in the state.
7. SCAPHI_041028_087.JPG: My guide, Jade, took this picture of me. We had a nice talk which ended up dealing with how she had been in an abusive relationship and thought that abusive relationships had to be stopped which somehow justified the attack on Iraq to her.
8. SCAPHI_041028_089.JPG: Not a great picture but the best I had. I had asked if money determined politics in the state and she asked me what I meant. I said, well, you didn't have any governors named "Dole" (as in pineapples), did you? She pointed to the first territorial governor, who happened to be Sanford B Dole. As quoted from http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/gahff/html/ff_055200_dolesanford.htm : Dole owned vast pineapple and sugar cane plantations in Hawaii and worked to protect his huge business interests there. An associate justice on the Hawaiian Supreme Court, he helped lead a revolution in Hawaii for a government that was more democratic but also represented the interests of the white elite. Queen Liliuokalani was deposed, and Dole became president of the provisional government in 1893. He served as president of the Republic of Hawaii from 1894 to 1898 and first governor of the territory of Hawaii from 1900 to 1903. Oddly enough, the Hawaiian government site doesn't mention that he had any economic interests at all.
9. SCAPHI_041028_099.JPG: 'Ioalni Barracks. These were the king's personal guards.
10. SCAPHI_041028_103.JPG: The 'Iolani Palace. I didn't have time to visit this but a number of Hawaiians recommended it.
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Wikipedia Description: Hawaii State Capitol
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The state capital of Hawaii is Honolulu. The Hawaii State Capitol is the official statehouse or capitol building of Hawaii in the United States. From its chambers, the executive and legislative branches administer their duties in the governance of the state. The Hawaii State Legislature—composed of the twenty-five member Hawaii State Senate led by the President of the Senate and the fifty-one member Hawaii State House of Representatives led by the Speaker of the House—convenes in the building. Its principal tenants are the Governor of Hawaii and Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, as well as all legislative offices.

Located in downtown Honolulu, the Hawaii State Capitol was commissioned and dedicated by John A. Burns, second Governor of Hawaii. It opened on March 15, 1969 and replaced the former statehouse, 'Iolani Palace.

Monuments:

Burns designed the restoration of the royal palace built by King David Kalakaua and Queen Consort Kapiolani; as part of that effort, the Queen Liliuokalani Statue in the Capitol Mall between the capitol building and Iolani Palace was dedicated on April 10, 1982.

Several other capitol building monuments decorate the statehouse grounds. The Beretania Street entrance features the Liberty Bell, a gift of the President of the United States and the United States Congress to the Territory of Hawaii in 1950 as a symbol of freedom and democracy. The most prominent monument on the statehouse grounds is the Father Damien Statue—a tribute to the Hawaii Catholic Church priest who died in 1869 after sixteen years of serving patients afflicted with leprosy. Father Damien was beatified towards canonization into sainthood by Pope John Paul II in 1995. Along with Mother Marianne Cope, Father Damien is expected to become one of the first Saints of the Roman Catholic Church from Hawaii.

Two monuments honor members of the armed forces from Hawaii. The Eternal Flame on Beretania Street is a metal sculptured torch that burns endlessly as a tribute to all men and women from Hawaii who served in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy in all the major and minor conflicts in which the United States was engaged. Likewise, the Korean Vietnam War Memorial pays tribute to the fallen service members that participated in those conflicts. Dedicated on July 24, 1994 by Benjamin J. Cayetano, fifth Governor of Hawaii, the monument consists of 768 black marble pedestals engraved with the names of 454 service members of the Korean War and 312 service members of the Vietnam Conflict. A larger marble slab bears a Hawaiian language inscription of remembrance.

Architecture:

The Hawaii State Capitol is an American adaptation of the Bauhaus style called Hawaiian international architecture. It was designed by a partnership between the firms of Belt, Lemon and Lo and John Carl Warnecke and Associates. Unlike other state capitols modeled after the United States Capitol, the Hawaii State Capitol's distinct architectural features symbolize various natural aspects of Hawaii. Among them:

* The building is surrounded by a reflecting pool, symbolizing the Pacific Ocean.
* The two legislative chambers are cone-shaped, symbolizing volcanoes that formed the Hawaiian Islands.
* The columns around the perimeter of the building have shapes resembling coconut trees.
* The Capitol is built in an open-air design, allowing sun, wind, and rain to enter; the central rotunda opens to the sky.

Reflecting Pool Algae Issue:

From the time the Capitol was completed in 1969, the reflecting pool has had a persistent algae growth problem, partly due to the fact the pool is fed with brackish water from on-site wells. Attempts by the state to fix the problems included introducing tilapia into the pool and installing an ozone treatment system. The state currently has the pool lining scrubbed manually with enzymes added to the water to combat growth. Some Capitol regulars say the algae growth has come to represent the pollution of the Pacific Ocean, in an ironic twist of the original symbolic meaning of the pool.
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