Kaniakapupu

Coordinates: 21°21′02.7″N 157°48′52.07″W / 21.350750°N 157.8144639°W / 21.350750; -157.8144639

Kaniakapupu
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The ruined remains of Kaniakapupu
Nearest city	Nuʻuanu, Hawaii
Built	1845
Governing body	State
NRHP Reference #	86002805 [1]
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1986

Kaniakapupu ("the singing of the land shells") is the now dilapidated summer palace of king Kamehameha III and his queen Kalama on Oahu in Hawaii.

History

The palace was completed in 1845 and was a place for entertaining foreign celebrities, chiefs, and commoners.

On Hawaiian Restoration Day in 1847, a luau attended by an estimated ten thousand people gathered at the palace.

References

1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. 

External links

• Nuʻuanu, Oʻahu, A Native Place: Kaniakapupu

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