Oahu's historic homes, attuned to the natural environment, offer a slice of history and a sense of place in a location where development encroaches.
There's a mountain on Oahu named for the Greek myth of Tantalus, for whom satisfaction was always just out of reach. The road up is winding, filled with switchbacks, hanging vines and vistas where, on mild nights, couples linger in cars against the backdrop of Honolulu's city lights.
'It takes a lot of commitment to say we're going to keep something that's important to us, even in the face of that kind of pressure.' Remarkably little of Hawaii's 20th-century architecture has been preserved, especially in urban areas, says William Chapman, dean of the school of architecture at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The mid-20th-century was a particularly harsh period for historic buildings in Honolulu, he says: 'We lost a lot.
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