Featured Maui Real Estate Property Listings

Haiku – Upcountry Real Estate 2470 Kaupakalua Road. – click here for more info A lovingly remodeled 5-bedroom, 2-bath home on 2-acres that is fenced and cross-fenced with Keawe posts. There is a 2-stall barn with tack room, a horse pasture, a 2,800 sq. ft. greenhouse and lots of fruit trees. $888,000
Olinda– Upcountry Real Estate 25 Lumahai Place – click here for more info This is the perfect Olinda home! Tucked away off Olinda Road – just a few minutes above Seabury Hall – lots of privacy and views AND a recently remodeled 1-bedroom, 1-bath cottage with its own driveway and yard. 2.88 acres. $1,450,000
Pukalani-Kulamalu – Upcountry Real Estate   click here for more info The views from this 3-bedroom, 3-bath home overlook the 6th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course to the ocean and West Maui Mountains beyond. The home and yard are impeccably maintained (challenge: try to find a speck of dust in the house or a weed in the yard!). $789,800
Makawao – Upcountry Real Estate 230 Mokuahi St. – click here for more info TWO charming homes on a beautifully landscaped, incredibly private half-acre. $749,000
Baldwin Avenue – Upcountry Real Estate 1900 Baldwin Avenue – click here for more info You will feel like you stepped back in time when you enter this property! The 1930’s era house, cottage and studio are on over an acre of land that over looks miles of sugar cane fields to north and south shore ocean views. $1,885,000
Olinda – Upcountry Real Estate 25 Lumahai Place – click here for more info This beautiful 4-bedroom, 3-bath home and detached 1-bedroom, 1-bath cottage are on 2.88 acres with great north shore views and tons of privacy! $1,550,000
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 0 Kula Highway – click here for more information 7.9-acres with coast to coast views! New gated large lot subdivision with only 5 lots. Spectacular! $1,300,000
Pukalani– Upcountry Real Estate 2886 Ualani Place Immculately maintained 3-bedroom, 2-bath, single-level home on the 9th fairway of the Pukalani Country Club. $699,000 - IN ESCROW
Pukalani– Upcountry Real Estate 124 Ala’apapa Place Custom 4-bedroom, 3-bath home, detached cottage and 5-car garage! Hardwood floors, central AC, central vacuum, granite counter tops, travertine bathrooms and dramatic views. $1,095,000 - IN ESCROW
Haiku – Upcountry Real Estate 1390 Kokomo Road Maliko House – a romantic and unique property with complete privacy, mature tropical landscaping, a 2,000 sf workshop/studio and much more on 1.9-acres. $2,350,000 - SOLD
Kahului – Central Maui Real Estate 13 Ho’owehi Place Like-new 3-bedroom, 3-bath home in a great new neighborhood! $609,000 - SOLD
Haiku – North Shore Real Estate 241 Waiama Way Haiku Hill at its best! 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath, 4,500 square foot home. Amazing attention to detail. Sweeping ocean views. $2,850,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 65 Maud’s Place This is a beautiful 5-bedroom home with a wonderful floor plan! Located in the Keokea area on a 2-acre view lot – this is one of the nicest homes on the market in Kula. $1,595,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 2936 Lower Kula Road This 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath home in lower Kula has a detached cottage and sits on a level, half-acre lot. GREAT views! $890,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 295 Pulehu Road Architecturally-designed home in desirable Lower Kula, surrounded by multi-million dollar homes on 2- to 20-acre parcels. $2,995,000 - SOLD
Haiku – North Shore Real Estate 2080 Lilikoi Rd. This C.W. Dickey-designed home and detached art studio was built in 1930 for Ethel and Harry Baldwin and moved to its present site in 1997. A “must see” if you are looking for views and privacy! $1,225,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate 670 Hoene St., Maui Uplands Beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with ocean views and detached 1 bedroom, 1 bath cottage on a half-acre. $985,000 - SOLD
Olinda – Upcountry Real Estate 2188 Pi’iholo Road Great cottage on a .5-acre in Olinda! Check it out! $598,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 28 Ka Drive Located in one of my favorite neighborhoods, Kula Kai, this single-level home sits on a private 14,255 sq. ft. lot with ocean view. $698,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate 111 Keleawe Street This 4-bedroom, 2-bath home has a flexible floor plan, a detached 2-bedroom cottage and a large workshop/storage building. It's a great value at $779,000 - SOLD
Kahului - Central Maui Real Estate Kahului Ikena #40-221 1 bedroom, 1 bath condo with NEW: carpet, tile, paint, faucets, blinds refrigerator and closet built-ins! Convenient location. $239,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate 50 Ahuwale Place 3 bedroom, 2 bath home plus detached studio/workshop with bathroom on 2 level, useable acres only 15 minutes to town. $885,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 320 Hololani Street Impeccably maintained, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on the 11th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course. $819,000 - SOLD
Haiku - North Shore Real Estate 373 Ulumalu Road Tucked back from the road among beautiful big trees is this 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath home with 3 large bonus rooms. $750,000 - SOLD
Makawao – Upcountry Real Estate 1000 Ukiu Rd. Classic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath ‘plantation’ home in perfect condition on a 10,000+ sq. ft. lot.  Large kitchen and bedrooms; private backyard. Perfectly priced at $550,000 - SOLD
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 11 Welina Place This is a beautiful 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 4,364 square foot home on 2 acres in Kula 200. It is all on one level with the exception of the 816 square foot master bedroom suite which has a bi-coastal view. Fabulous! $1,685,000 - SOLD
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 297 Kulamanu Circle This like-new home has great curb appeal. Very nice landscaping and sideyard. Private and tranquil inside the home. Upper and lower decks overlook ranchland and Maalaea. Beautiful ocean view from living room and master BR. 9' ceilings upstairs. Fireplace (with blower) in living room. Double-pane windows throuighout. Built-in Bose sound system. Stainless steel appliances and Corian countertops. Walk-in closet in master BR. Whirlpool tub in master BA. Big family room with half-BA (and closet )downstairs. Easy to show. $860,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 157 Pi'imauna Street Kua'Aina Ridge: This gorgeous 3-bedroom, 2-bath home has amazing attention to detail (crown molding, plantation shuttered windows, bead-board wainscoting, etc.), a gourmet kitchen, perfect landscaping and nice north shore ocean views. $760,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 1576 Lower Kimo Drive Immaculate 4-bedroom, 3-bath (OR: 3-bedroom, 2-bath with attached 1-bedroom, 1-bath ohana). Newly painted inside and out, brand new flooring and new appliances. Nothing left to do but move in and enjoy the great south shore ocean view and the fabulous Kula climate! $715,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 256 Hololani St. Beautiful 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with 1-bedroom, 1-bath ohana on the 12th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course. $929,000 - SOLD
Kihei - South Maui Real Estate Menehune Shores #416 Oh what a view! Walk in the front door and all you see are islands and ocean! This 1-bedroom, 1-bath, 4th floor, ‘front & center’ unit was completely renovated in 2001 – new EVERYTHING! $650,000 - SOLD
Haiku - Upcountry Real Estate 2080 Lilikoi Road This is the classic C.W. Dickey-designed home on 2-acres with an amazing view! $1,550,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 28 Mano Drive, Kula Kai Nice, big, comfortable 4-bedroom, 3-bath home in Kula Kai with a very flexible floor plan. This would be a great house for a large or extended family as the downstairs offers independence from the rest of the house. $825,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 350 Lokelani house A cute 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with 2-car garage and panoramic north to south shore views! $700,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate This is the classic “old plantation house” that everyone wants! Complete with glass door knobs, French doors, a big porch and an old “wash house” out back! Located across from pineapple fields this is a great buy at $495,000 - SOLD

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Arts & Culture

The Alexander House Settlement

The Alexander House Settlement was a charitable organization that occupied 11 acres in the center of Wailuku town. It was named in honor of early Wailuku missionaries William Patterson Alexander and his wife, Mary. Among a number of other accomplishments, Alexander was a long-time pastor of the Hawaiian Board of Missions' church at Wailuku, where, in 1863, he started the Theological Society. Their daughter Emily was one of the organizers and supporters of the Settlement House in the early 1900's and for the first half of the 20th century, it was the main provider of social, welfare and recreational activities for the island of Maui.

Emily Alexander married Henry P. Baldwin, another offspring of missionaries. H. P. was instrumental in crowning sugar as "king" on Maui. Both of them were among the most benevolent of the plantation owners of the time, famous for their care for their workers and for the people of Maui. (Emily's brother Samuel was the other half of the Alexander and Baldwin partnership that evolved into a major modern corporation in Hawaii.)

As it evolved, the Alexander House was the continuation of the ideals of the missionary ancestors of many of the organization's major supporters who had names like Atherton, Baldwin, Castle, and Cooke. (It was also an important way to help immigrant workers assimilate into life in the land of sugar plantations.)

The settlement house movement began in London slums in 1884 and soon spread to depressed areas of the United States. The idea, which was originally a socialist concept, was brought to Maui by a couple of schoolteachers, Nancy J. Malone and Charlotte L. Turner. The two women toured the settlement houses in New England and Chicago during a trip to the Mainland. Once it reached Maui, however, the idea took a very different turn.

Both women had worked as teachers at Waihee School and Miss Turner took charge of the Chinese mission in Wailuku in 1896. The women saw the need for alleviating the harsh conditions many of the plantation workers' children faced daily. The settlement house idea seemed like the ideal way to facilitate this.

When they returned from their trip, Malone and Turner went from one side of the island to the other on horseback looking for support and for funds to build a facility for the new settlement house. Their first project was to be a kindergarten for the children of immigrant workers. Wailuku Sugar Company donated the land for the settlement house. At the time Market and Main Streets were unpaved dirt roads that often turned into mud bogs during the rainy season.

The Alexander House Settlement originally encompassed the Chinese mission on Market Street and a kindergarten on the southwest corner of Market and Main Streets. When the kindergarten opened in 1901 it had 33 pupils. The number of children grew. Women who taught at the Settlement kindergarten roomed at a boarding house further along Market Street. The teacher's rooming house offered private and semi-private rooms for the school's young single teachers, each including a small desk and other homey furnishings.

As the children who attended the school got older and their parents became more involved in the activities provided by the settlement house, instruction at the Alexander House included sewing classes, clay modeling, mechanical drawing, and English classes for Chinese and Japanese immigrants.  There were popular story-telling sessions for small children as well as a reading room and library open to all.

Home visitors were deployed to the secluded homes of many of the recently arrived Chinese and Japanese immigrants to help them become a part of the community and to guide the workers and their families through the complexities of life in a foreign land.  Alexander House also promoted Christmas celebrations every year and it became a center for Boy and Girl Scouting activities as well. All of these things were designed to help the children of the immigrants and their parents adapt to their new world.

During the latter part of the first decade after Alexander House opened its doors, it was decided that sports was to be considered a "moral and health influence." A gymnasium and a "swimming tank" were added in 1911, using funds donated by H. P. Baldwin. The first public basketball game took place in that gym. Later other athletic facilities, including a bowling alley, were added as the Alexander House continued to encourage all kinds of sports.

Over the years Alexander House provided assistance to the fledgling Maui County Fair and Racing Association and they sent personnel to the public schools to help develop programs in physical training and in athletics.  They encouraged the public schools to provide adequate playground space for the children as well.

In 1924 the original kindergarten building was demolished and two new Spanish-mission-style buildings were added to the southwest frontages of Main and Market Streets. By then the streets were paved. The expanded facility offered learning space for "80 bright little kiddies," according to the Maui News.

Meanwhile when the Carnegie Foundation gave funds to the Territorial library and a librarian was employed, the two front rooms of the Settlement building were used to house a library.

Throughout the years of its existence, Alexander House hosted concerts, parties and entertainments as fundraising events. Echoes of that practice continue into modern times, when almost every public event and festival is a fundraiser for some worthy cause or other and is put together by armies of volunteers.

Community outreach programs in health care and physical education were developed by Alexander House and the complex housed the Chamber of Commerce, the Red Cross, Community Chest and other public service groups. Among its many outreach programs Alexander House started a "fresh air camp" for undernourished children who were vulnerable to tuberculosis. The camp was later made a permanent institution at the Kula Sanitarium.

By 1950, when Alexander House closed its doors, Maui had changed fundamentally.  The paternalistic plantation system was dying. Charitable organizations had proliferated and there were many other public service groups working towards bettering life for Mau's people (most of whom were no longer immigrant plantation workers). Alexander House was replaced by the National Dollar Store and by American Security bank. (Later the corner bank site was redeveloped as an office building.)

In 1972, the old Alexander House Settlement House organization finally died. Mr. Ten Sung Shinn (the founder of Ah Fook's Supermarket in Kahului and a man noted for his community service) was the last president of the Alexander House Settlement.  He took charge of transferring that entity's assets to the J. Walter Cameron Center, another noted Maui public service facility that was developed by the descendants of missionaries.

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Braddah-Nics Lexicon

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Local Grinds

Local Kine Teri Beef

Ingredients:

• 4 beef steaks
• 1 clove garlic
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tsp ginger juice
• 3 tbsp mirin (sweet cooking wine)
• vegetable oil
  
  

Procedure:

In bowl, combine soy sauce, mirin, ginger juice, and garlic. Thinly slice beef steaks, and marinate for about an hour. In saucepan, heat vegetable oil, add beef, and quick fry. Flip slices, pour marinade, and let simmer until cooked. Enjoy with 2 scoops white rice.

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