From Painting by Lau Sheung. 
PUNCHBOWL HILL, HONOLULU. 
honored names. In the grounds is the tomb of 
King Lunalilo, who reigned a year between the 
rule of the last of the Kamehamehas and the elec¬ 
tion of Kalakaua by the legislature (1874). 
Lnnalilo left the bulk of his real estate to found 
a home for aged and poor Hawaiians. Lie pre¬ 
ferred that his bones rest at Kawaiahao instead 
of receiving sepulcher in the royal mausoleum 
in Kuuanu. valley. 
The Chamberlain House, on King street, in 
the rear of Kawaiahao church, was built of coral 
cut from the reef. The collecting of material 
was begun in 1828 and the house was completed 
in 1831. Levi Chamberlain was the first man 
for the position of business agent for the Ameri¬ 
can Board of Commisisoners for Foreign Mis¬ 
sions, in the Sandwich Islands (thus named by 
Captain Cook for his patron, the Earl of Sand¬ 
wich). Chamberlain arrived in Honolulu with 
the second company of missionaries on the ship 
Thames, April 27, 1823. Missionaries and others 
from the outside islands were constant visitors. 
It was known as the Mission House. Sometimes 
a shipmaster, bound for the Arctic, would leave 
his wife with the Chamberlains until his return 
in the autumn, confident of her welfare mean- 
while. 
Hear the Chamberlain Llouse stands the oldest 
frame house in Hawaii. Its already fashioned 
timbers w 7 ere sent out from Boston in 1821 to be 
a dwelling for the mission. Considerable diffi¬ 
culty was encountered in obtaining permission for 
its erection from Kamehameha II, who at first 
declared: “My father (Kamehameha the Great) 
never allowed a foreigner to build a house in this 
country except for the king.” 
Washington Blace, the official residence of the 
governor, and long the home of Liliuokalani, was 
built in 1846 by Captain Dominis, father of the 
husband of the late queen. He sailed away on a 
general trading voyage and to get China-made 
furniture for his home, just as the mansion was 
on the point of completion; but the ship he com¬ 
manded was never heard of more. Ilis widow 
rented her home to the United States resident 
commissioner, who, on February 22, 1846, an¬ 
nounced that he had named the house Washing¬ 
ton Place in honor of George Washington. King 
Kamehameha III approved the name, decreeing 
that the house should bear it for all time. 
In 1862 the son of Captain Dominis, John 
Owen Dominis, married the Princess Liliuoka¬ 
lani, who, in 1877, was proclaimed heir apparent 
to the throne. Liliuokalani’s husband became 
governor of Oahu Island. He was a member of 
the Hawaiian embassy which visited the United 
States and Great Britain in 1887, representing 
the Kingdom of ITaw r aii at Queen Victoria’s 
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