Typical Hawaiian Pili Grass Hale

“A Typical Hawaiian Pili Grass Hale, built on a light frame of poles and hau tree bows, tied with coconut fibre sennit.” From the Architectural Style Book for Lahaina, adopted October 6, 1969 by the County of Maui Historic Commission, Sheet B1. The Style Book documents the town’s built heritage from pre-contact Hawaiian structures through missionary-era construction to plantation-period buildings. Source: County of Maui Historic Commission, Architectural Style Book for Lahaina (1969). Copies available at Maui County Planning Department.