RETURN TO ELEGANCE

Ballet Hawaii and Mr. Douglas Himmelfarb were hosts at a special event to celebrate the restoration of  KA'AHA'AINA.
 

 

Ka'Aha'aina was built by Clarence Hyde Cooke in the 1920s on fourteen acres of property in Nu'uanu.  It  was purchased by A. Lester Marks and his wife Elizabeth in 1946 from the Academy of Arts, which had inherited the estate.  The estate features a magnificent main structure of ten thousand square feet.  The back garden includes  a stream and a magnificent pool with a cabana featuring columns of a Roman temple.  It is in the Hawaii'i Register and the National Register of Historic Sites.  Ka'Aha'aina was purchased in 2006 by Douglas Himmelfarb for his personal  residence and to house his extensive art collection.