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Historic Davis Levin Livingston Place
Our
historic building, Davis Levin Livingston Place, was
constructed in 1898 and reflects the quiet elegance of territorial
Hawaii’s early commerce. Located in the heart of the
financial district of downtown Honolulu, the building was
built by Dr. Gerrit P. Judd, a prominent physician and advisor
to the Kingdom of Hawaii. The building is considered the finest
example of Italian Renaissance style in Hawaii and was designed
by well-known Chicago architect Oliver Traphagen, whose other
landmark structures include the Moana Hotel in Waikiki.
This four-story building (a fifth story
was added in the 1920s) featured the first electric passenger
elevator in the Pacific and still features beautifully restored
etched brass elevator doors depicting scenes of the arrival
to Hawaii of early commercial seaplanes. The Building has
served as the corporate headquarters of Bank of Hawaii, sugar
and agriculture giant, Alexander and Baldwin and First Federal
Savings and Loan. The building also housed the historic Honolulu
Stock Exchange from 1898 until 1977 where investors would
trade Hawaii stocks before modern communications allowed trading
on mainland and foreign exchanges. Several of the original
oak seats on the Honolulu Stock Exchange can be found at Davis
Levin.
The
building, at the makai-Diamond Head corner of Merchant Street
and Fort Street Mall consists of 20,200 square feet, sits
on 5,049 square feet of land and was extensively remodeled
in 1979. In 2000, the building was again restored to its original,
historic elegance but with state of the art technology (including
a video teleconference facility) to accommodate the law firm
of Davis Levin Livingston.
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