Preserving Maui’s Past – Inspiring its Future
There are a wonderful number of opportunities to support Imua Discovery Garden through Naming and Giving Opportunities that will create a legacy for your giving.
For an invitation to preview our giving opportunities at levels of $10,000 and above, please reach out to us at discovery@imuafamily.org or call us at (808) 244-7467. An Imua Family Services representative will reach out to you for an appointment.
The Imua Discovery Garden has beautiful grounds featuring traditional architecture designed by Charles William Dickey, one of Hawaii’s premier architects of the 20th-century, making for an incredible experience while on the property.
Charles William Dickey
Charles William “C.W.” Dickey (July 6, 1871 – April 25, 1942) was an American architect famous for developing a distinctive style of Hawaiian architecture. He was known not only for designing some of the most famous buildings in Hawaiʻi—such as the Alexander & Baldwin Building, Halekulani Hotel, Kamehameha Schools campus buildings – but also for influencing a cadre of notable successors. Though born in Alameda, California, he grew up in Haʻikū on Maui, returning to California for schooling. After finishing high school in Oakland, California, he obtained a B.A. in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894, then worked with Clinton Briggs Ripley (1896–1900) and E.A.P. Newcomb (1901–1905) in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, before returning to open his own firm in Oakland. His initial designs in Hawaiʻi were eclectic. Influences of the then-popular Richardsonian Romanesque style can be seen in Punahou School’s Pauahi Hall (1894–96), the Bishop Estate Building on Merchant Street (1896), the Irwin Block (Nippu Jiji building) on Nuuanu Street (1896), and Progress Block on Fort Street (1897) in Downtown Honolulu, the last now occupied by Hawaiʻi Pacific University. One of his finest early designs was the Italianate Stangenwald Building (1901) on Merchant Street. Many of these are contributing properties to the Merchant Street Historic District.