King Kamehameha Golf Course Clubhouse

King Kamehameha Golf Course Clubhouse
View of the clubhouse from the south
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General information
TypeHouse
LocationWaikapu, Maui, Hawaii
Coordinates20°50′26″N 156°31′08″W / 20.840664°N 156.518762°W / 20.840664; -156.518762
Construction started1991?
CompletedMay 1993
Cost$25-35 million (1993 completion)[1][2]
$40 million (2004 overhaul)[2]
Governing bodyMMK Maui LP
Technical details
Floor area74,778 sq ft (6,947.1 m2)
Design and construction
Architect(s)John Rattenbury
Adapted by Taliesin Architects from an original design by Frank Lloyd Wright[3]

The King Kamehameha Golf Course Clubhouse, formerly known as the Waikapu Valley Country Club, is a building in Waikapu, Maui, Hawaii. The structure is based on the unbuilt Arthur Miller house (1957) originally conceived by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959). Wright designed the house for Arthur Miller's wife, Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), but Miller and Monroe divorced soon after and the project was abandoned. The Arthur Miller house design was a modification of two previous unbuilt projects—the Raúl Baillères house (1952) and before it, the Robert F. Windfohr house (1949), also known as the "Crownfield" house.[4]

Wright's work remained in the Taliesin archives for more than two decades until 1988 when Pundy Yokouchi and Howard Hamamoto visited Taliesin Architects in Scottsdale, Arizona, and expressed interest in building a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed golf clubhouse. Architect John Rattenbury combined all three unfinished Wright designs, enlarged them to meet the spatial requirements of a commercial clubhouse, and designed it to fit into the natural landscape of Waikapu's hilly terrain. Construction of the clubhouse was completed in 1993.

Located at an elevation of 750 feet in the foothills of the West Maui Mountains, the clubhouse looks out across the sugarcane-filled valley of Central Maui's isthmus towards the Upcountry slopes of the Haleakalā volcano in the east, with panoramic coastal views of Ma'alaea Bay in the south and Ho‘okipa Bay in the north.[5][6]

  1. ^ Rogers, P. D. (November 14, 1991). Wright in Hawaii. The Washington Post, T5. (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Campbell was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Holmes, K., Watersun, D. (1994). Under A Maui Roof. Maui Publishing Company. ISBN 0-9622212-1-X. p. 94.
  4. ^ Pfeiffer, B. B. (1985). Frank Lloyd Wright, Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Seven Unbuilt Designs. 1st Ed. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-8093-1235-2. This includes "Crownfield", Robert F. Windfohr House, Fort Worth, Texas, 1949, Plate 54; and Raul Bailleres House, Acapulco, Mexico, 1952, Plate 56.
  5. ^ Rattenbury, J. (2000). A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects. Pomegranate. ISBN 0-7649-1366-2. pp. 125-127.
  6. ^ Tsutsumi, C. C. (July 3, 2006a) Dream House. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, D1.