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Luakaha. Street and land section, upper Nuʻu-anu, Honolulu, and the site of and name of the country home of Ka-mehameha III. Lit., place for relaxation.
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Kaniakapupu (Sound of the Land Snails) was completed by 1845. Its design represented a transition between Hawaiian and nineteenth-century Western architecture. It measured 40 by 45 feet (13 x 14 m), had a thatched roof, a raised wooden floor, framed glazed windows, and walls made of coral and stone. Here the king hosted grand entertainments. The largest of these was a luau attended by an estimated ten thousand people on July 31, 1847, to celebrate Sovereignty Restoration Day, an event marking the restoration of the Hawaiian Kingdom after it was forced under British rule for five months in 1843. Foreign guests, unaccustomed to sitting on mats with the natives, sat at tables in the main house. Outside, the royal party and the multitudes feasted at a long lanai, or porch. They dined on pork, salt fish, coconuts, and other island delicacies. It is believed that the site was in ruins by 1873, having suffered from years of exposure to the elements. The crumbling walls of the main house are all that remain. Preservation efforts began in the 1950s, when the Territorial Commission on Historic Sites cleared and stabilized the ruins. Lack of maintenance caused further deterioration for the next thirty years. In 1998 the Historic Hawaii Foundation established a fund to restabilize the ruins, a task completed two years later. An archaeological survey continues. The State Historic Preservation Division of Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources oversees Kaniakapupu with the involvement of the Historic Hawaii Foundation and other local preservation organizations. Kaniakapupu is located at the end of an unmarked trail off the Pali Highway.

Just above Luakaha are the ruins of the summer residence of Queen Kalama, consort of Kamehameha III. The ruin at present consists of four delapidated walls of stone, which, it is said certain ill informed persons delight to point out to strangers as the ruins of an old temple.

Another famous example depicted by Emmert was Kaniakapupu, Kamehameha Ill's country residence in the upper Nuuanu valley above Honolulu. This structure has long since crumbled to ruins, and little is known of its origins except that it was apparently built around 1843 over the remnants of an ancient heiau. Like the two churches it so closely resembled, this massive stone-walled structure must have been quite expansive; it was on the grounds of Kaniakapupu that Kamehameha III held the largest luau ever to take place during the Hawaiian monarchy, an assembly of an estimated ten thousand people in 1847.19 Although continuous lanais around the exterior may not have been as common, it is clear from the Emmert prints and other period sources that the high double-hipped roof seen in these three buildings was frequently a feature of Hawaiian architecture in the 1840s and 1850s. However, as Western architectural influences became more pervasive in the second half of the century, ...

Susan A. Lebo (Bishop Museum, Honolulu) and James Bayman (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) New Perspectives on Kaniakapupu, Nu'uanu Valley,O'ahu

Kaniakapupu, a royal summer residence of Kauikeaouli (King Kamehameha III) offers important perspectives on Hawaiian history. Interest in this important site by Native Hawaiian, historical, archaeological, and preservation communities continues to generate important dialogue concerning its cultural significance and interpretation and stabilization. We report on work by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Archaeological Field School towards this effort.