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Photos of Aloha > Three-bay, groin-vaulted portico at the Richards Street entrance of the HECO building which was handpainted with mythic figures by artist Julian Garnsey of San Francisco. Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawai'i
Photos of Aloha > Valley of Temples and the Byodo-In Temple. This temple is a precise replica in concrete of a 900 year old temple in Uji, Japan. Valley of the Temples Memorial Park
Kaneohe, East Oahu

A nondenominational cemetery, Japanese style, of unsurpassed beauty with the Koolau Mountains in the background. Wild peacocks, a two acre pond holds over 10,000 carps of all color and sizes, oriental gardens, and a 9-foot tall Buddha can be seen here.
Photos of Aloha > 'Iolani PalaceThe architecture is romantic Italian Renaissance or Italianate style with fluted cast-iron Corinthian columns, decorative brackets and iron railings, mansard-style tower roofs  at each corner and at the center of the mauka and makai elevations, window enframements with brackets and pediment crowns, and wide lanais on all sides.  `Iolani Palace was the official residence of the Hawaiian Kingdom's last two monarchs -- King Kalakaua, who built the Palace in 1882, and his sister and successor, Queen Lili'uokalani.  King Kalakaua and Queen Kapi'olani lived in the Palace from the time of its completion in 1882 until his death in 1891.  His successor, Queen Lili'uokalani, lived in the Palace until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893.During the monarchy period, the Palace was the center of social and political activity in the Kingdom of Hawai`i.
Photos of Aloha > Ornate Details of this beautiful Renaissance Revival building that opened in 1910, as the Yokohama Specie Bank
Photos of Aloha > Ornate Details of this beautiful Renaissance Revival building that opened in 1910, as the Yokohama Specie Bank
Photos of Aloha > Ornate Details of this beautiful Renaissance Revival building that opened in 1910, as the Yokohama Specie Bank
Photos of Aloha > Ornate Details of this beautiful Renaissance Revival building that opened in 1910, as the Yokohama Specie Bank
Photos of Aloha > Ornate Details of this beautiful Renaissance Revival building that opened in 1910, as the Yokohama Specie Bank
Antique Ornate Silver Scale in ChinaTown, Honolulu, Hawaii
Photos of Aloha > Antique Ornate Silver Scale in ChinaTown, Honolulu, Hawaii
Antique Ornate Silver Scale in ChinaTown, Honolulu, Hawaii
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