1914 - McCorriston Building - Honolulu, Oahu, HI
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N 21° 18.604 W 157° 51.650
4Q E 618152 N 2356891
Built in 1914, the McCorriston Building is located at 1107 Fort Street in the historic capitol district of downtown Honolulu, Oahu.
Waymark Code: WMRHAR
Location: Hawaii, United States
Date Posted: 06/21/2016
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With its prominent street-facing pediment and simple façade treatment, the McCorriston Building is an example of a Neoclassical Revival Style building. Four bays wide and two stories high, the building incorporates two ground-floor shop fronts, their windows and ceramic-tiled kick-plates dating probably from the late 1940s. A full-width metal awning, supported by steel turnbuckles, spans the front façade, a historic feature of commercial buildings in Honolulu before the 1980s when new ordinances prohibited them. The architect for the project was Lyman H. Bigelow (born 1878).
The McCorriston Building occupies a section of Fort Street once devoted to service industries. In 1891, the site included a blacksmith shop, a small butcher shop and an open yard. The building has hosted a variety of different businesses during its life. Early tenants included a barbershop, billiard parlor, dress shop, florist, employment service, piano studio and storage space. In the 1960s, the New York Dress Shop occupied most of the ground floor shop area, with Kuikiyo Florist taking the mauka corner.
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