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18-543: Spalding House was built as a residence in 1925 by Mrs. Cooke, the widow of Charles Montague Cooke , a local businessman and missionary descendant. At the same time, the Honolulu Academy of Art (later renamed Honolulu Museum of Art ), which Mrs. Cooke endowed, was being built on the site of her former home on Beretania Street in Honolulu. The Makiki Heights home was designed by Hart Wood and later enlarged by

36-669: A general store, and continued as supply agents to the mission. Their store house is part of the Mission Houses Museum . Cooke made one trip to supply mission stations in the Marshall Islands and Gilbert Islands . In 1858 Cooke became a partner in the Haʻikū Sugar Company on the island of Maui . During the American Civil War in the 1860s, the company became an agent for selling sugar from

54-639: The Chiefs' Children's School . King Kamehameha III selected as students those who would be eligible for the throne based on their family background. Instruction was in English, and all five of the next ruling monarchs were students at the school. A complex of buildings was built to house the Cookes and students in 1840 as it became a boarding school. In 1846 it was renamed the Royal School, and became funded by

72-722: The Honolulu Museum of Art . Anna Rice Cooke also left 4500 pieces of artwork they had collected to the academy. His estate was incorporated as Charles M. Cooke, Ltd. in 1898, and dissolved and distributed to 58 shareholders in 1942. Some of the assets became the Charles M. and Anna C. Cooke Trust, which became a charitable foundation in 1971. In 1980, it became the Cooke Foundation. The Hawaii Community Foundation continues to administer grants. Amos Starr Cooke Amos Starr Cooke (December 1, 1810 – March 20, 1871)

90-765: The Thurston Twigg-Smith family converted it to The Contemporary Museum . Following interior renovation, the museum, with its doors by artists Robert Graham and Tony Berlant , opened to the public in October 1988. On May 2, 2011, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu ceased to exist as an independent entity, and is now known as the Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House . The Honolulu Academy of Art acquired Spalding House along with its collections of more than 3,000 works of art. The Makiki Heights building, which has about 5,000 square feet of gallery space, reassumed its former name, “Spalding House." Around that time

108-685: The United States annex the islands. He was a founder in 1893 of the Bank of Hawaii with Peter Cushman Jones and Joseph Ballard Atherton (his brother-in-law). He moved to California expecting to retire in 1894, but returned and became Bank of Hawaii president in September 1898 after the death of Jones. In 1899 he also became president of C. Brewer & Co. , another of the Big Five (Hawaii) . Bernice Pauahi Bishop appointed him as one of

126-546: The sugar plantations in Hawaii to the western United States. However, Cooke's health declined and he turned over his duties to Joseph Ballard Atherton who had started as a clerk in 1859. Cooke died in Honolulu, March 20, 1871. The company went on to be one of the " Big Five " corporations that dominated the economy of the Territory of Hawaii . Their 7 children were: His wife Juliette Cooke died on August 11, 1896. Most of

144-596: The Honolulu Academy of Art rebranded itself Honolulu Museum of Art . David Hockney designed stage sets for three one-act French operas presented at the Metropolitan Opera in 1981. He reconstructed these stage sets for a 1983 exhibition at the Walker Art Center , Hockney Paints the Stage . The three-dimensional set for Maurice Ravel's opera, L'enfant et les sortilèges ( The Child and

162-570: The Spells ), was acquired for the 1988 opening of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, and was installed in the Milton Cades Pavilion on the grounds of Spalding House. The surrounding gardens were originally landscaped between 1928 and 1941 as a Japanese stroll garden by Reverend K. H. Inagaki, a Christian minister of Japanese ancestry. In 1941, he traveled to Japan to visit relatives, and was never heard from again. From 1979 to 1980,

180-708: The firm became Lewers & Cooke. He was an investor in several sugar plantations in Hawaii , which became more profitable after the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 removed tariffs . On January 18, 1893, immediately after the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii , he was appointed to an advisory council for the Provisional Government of Hawaii . On February 1 he was sent as a representative to Washington, D.C. , in an unsuccessful attempt to have

198-431: The firm of Bertram Goodhue and Associates . In 1950, Cooke's daughter, Alice Spalding (Mrs. Phillip Spalding), engaged Vladimir Ossipoff to remodel the ground floor. The Honolulu Museum of Art acquired the estate as a bequest from Alice Spalding in 1968 and operated it as an annex for the display of Japanese prints from 1970 to 1978. In the late 1970s, it was sold to a subsidiary of The Honolulu Advertiser . In 1986,

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216-830: The first trustees of the Kamehameha Schools , known then as the Bishop Estate. He served on its board from 1884 to 1897. In 1904 he founded the Waikiki Aquarium , and in 1909 donated funds for the library at Punahou School. He kept his businesses intact through the Panic of 1907 . Their children were: He died August 27, 1909, after a second stroke . Most of the family is buried at the Mission Houses Cemetery near Kawaiahaʻo Church . A house he had built on Thomas Square in 1882 became

234-644: The gardens were resuscitated by Honolulu landscape architect James C. Hubbard. During the 1990s, Kahaluʻu-based landscape architect Leland Miyano brought the gardens to their current state. While open as a museum, the grounds displayed sculpture by Satoru Abe , Charles Arnoldi , John Buck , Mark Bulwinkle , Deborah Butterfield , Gordon Chandler , Jedd Garet , Jun Kaneko , George Rickey , James Seawright , Toshiko Takaezu , Tom Wesselmann , and Arnold Zimmerman . The Honolulu Museum of Art announced in July 2019 that it would close its Spalding House location and put

252-668: The government. In 1849 Cooke worked for Samuel Northrup Castle who had been a shipmate on the Mary Frazier as secular supply agent for the mission. As the American Board reduced funding for the Hawaii stations, he co-founded Castle & Cooke as a private company in June 1851. Edward Griffin Beckwith (1826–1909) became the next principal of the Royal School, as it opened to students of all races. The business started as

270-606: The property on the market. The site closed to the public in December 2019. Charles Montague Cooke Charles Montague Cooke (May 6, 1849 – August 27, 1909) was a businessman during the Kingdom of Hawaii , Republic of Hawaii , and Territory of Hawaii . Charles Montague Cooke was born May 6, 1849, in Honolulu, Hawaii . His father was Amos Starr Cooke co-founder of Castle & Cooke . His mother Juliette Montague Cooke

288-550: Was an American educator and businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii . He was patriarch of a family that influenced Hawaii during the 20th century. Amos Starr Cooke was born in Danbury, Connecticut , December 1, 1810. His father was Joseph Platt Cooke (1760–1841) and mother was Annis Starr (died 1813). His grandfather Joseph Platt Cooke (1730–1816) served in the American Revolutionary War . Juliette Montague

306-547: Was born in Sunderland, Massachusetts , March 10, 1812. Her father was Caleb Montague (1781–1825) and mother Martha Warner. They were married November 27, 1836, and in less than a month in the 8th company from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Hawaii. They sailed from Boston December 14, 1836, on the Mary Frazier and reached Honolulu on April 9, 1837. The Cookes were put in charge of

324-679: Was the teacher of future leaders of the Kingdom of Hawaii at the Royal School . He was educated at Punahou School and Amherst Agricultural College where he roomed with friend William Owen Smith . In 1871, Cooke worked as a clerk for his father's firm. He moved up to head bookkeeper. Castle & Cooke was one of the " Big Five " corporations that dominated the economy of the Territory of Hawaii . He married Anna Charlotte Rice (1853–1934) on April 30, 1874. In 1877 he became business partners with Joshua G. Dickson and Robert Lewers importing lumber and hardware. After Dickson died in July 1880,

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