Makawao Union Church
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Makawao Union Church
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| Nearest city | Makawao, Hawaii |
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| Coordinates | 20°53′32″N 156°21′3″W / 20.89222°N 156.35083°WCoordinates: 20°53′32″N 156°21′3″W / 20.89222°N 156.35083°W |
| Area | 1.7 acres (0.69 ha) |
| Built | 1917 |
| Architect | C. W. Dickey |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 85003227 |
| Added to NRHP | December 17, 1985 |
Makawao Union Church is a church near Makawao on the Hawaiian island of Maui. It was founded by New England missionary Jonathan Smith Green during the Kingdom of Hawaii. The third historic structure used by the congregation was designed by noted local architect C.W. Dickey and dedicated in 1917 as the Henry Perrine Baldwin Memorial Church. In 1985, Makawao Union Church was placed on the Hawaii and National Register of Historic Places.
In 1870, Henry Perrine Baldwin his wife, Emily Alexander Baldwin, and their children joined the church. Henry served as organist for over forty years. Baldwin and his brother-in-law became wealthy co-founders of Alexander & Baldwin. On January 5, 1878, Rev. Green died; Asenath Green would maintain the church until she died in 1894, and then daughters Mary and Laura.
His son Joseph Porter Green (1833–1886) served at the church, and was elected to the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1860.
In 1888, Baldwin offered the church a site for a new building, on the foundation of the former Paliuli Sugar Mill near what is now called Rainbow Gulch and Rainbow County Park. The mill was named for Pali uli (literally "green cliff"), the place in Hawaiian mythology roughly equivalent to the garden of Eden.
This church, a New England style white frame structure, was dedicated on March 10, 1889. The Pāʻia Community House, finished in hardwood on the inside, was built in 1914 adjacent to the church. The Community House, with its large auditorium and 40-foot (12 m) deep stage was used for plays, operettas, school graduations, concerts, lectures, silent movies and dances. The site of the old church, 20°51′42″N 156°18′46″W / 20.86167°N 156.31278°W became the cemetery. Later the Maui Veteran's Cemetery was built adjacent to the church cemetery.
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