Makiki

Makiki stretches from downtown Honolulu to Mānoa and Waikīkī, bounded to the north by Makiki Heights and Makiki Valley and to the south by Ala Moana.

Makiki is an area of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi located northeast of downtown Honolulu generally stretching east to west from Punahou Street to Pensacola Street and north to south from Round Top Drive/Makiki Heights Drive to Lunalilo Freeway. Punchbowl, an extinct tuff cone, and Tantalus, tower over the Makiki neighborhood. The geographic layout of this area is primarily older houses, smaller apartment buildings, and side streets. Major roadways include Punahou Street, Pensacola Street, Piʻikoi Street, Nehoa Street, and Wilder Avenue. The area also includes a fire station, hospital, public school system, private schools including Punahou School, several churches of various denominations, a library, a community center, market place, and parks. The valley heights have hiking trails owned by the state for public use. The valley heights are mostly underdeveloped leaving room for a non-profit conservation organization named Hawaii Nature Center, to hold a small property providing conservation education and work opportunity to local schools students. Two Makiki community organizations, Hui o Makiki and Friends of Makiki Community Library, have partnered together to create a Makiki Community with information about educational, cultural, recreational, and social-service offerings in the Makiki area, including a calendar of events.

History

Punahou school was opened in Makiki on July 11, 1842, to educate missionary children, on a land grant of 200 acres from Governor Boki near the site of Kapunahou water spring.^[1] Makiki is also the site of the Claus "King of Sugar" Spreckels Victorian-style mansion near Dole Street, which was later refurbished and converted into the St. Louis Alumni Clubhouse.^[2] Lunalilo Home was opened in Makiki under the sponsorship of King William Charles Lunalilo for "the poor, the destitute, the infirm, and the aged people of Hawaiian blood or extraction, giving preference to old people." ^[3] Central Union Church on Beretania and Punahou streets was cornerstoned on December 2, 1922 (completed in 1924), on property that belonged to the Dillingham homestead.^[4]

Notable residents

• Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Romualdez Marcos after losing the Philippine presidency in the 1986 People Power Revolution.
• Bruno Mars, President Theodore Roosevelt High School, R&B Singer.

Coordinates: 21°18′20.19″N 157°49′48.38″W / 21.3056083°N 157.8301056°W / 21.3056083; -157.8301056

• Barack Obama was born in Makiki at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children and lived in Makiki for much of his childhood and adolescence, attending Punahou School. His maternal grandparents, Stanley Armour and Madelyn Dunham, rented an apartment in Makiki in which Obama lived mostly in his childhood.
• Brian Schatz, U.S. Senator of Hawaii, resides in the district.

References

External links

• Manoa-Makiki travel guide from Wikivoyage