Editing Hawaiian architecture (section)

==Mission==
Traditional Hawaiian architecture experienced its first revolution with the arrival of [[Congregational church|Congregational]] [[missionary]] [[Hiram Bingham I|Hiram Bingham]].  [[Presbyterian]] [[religious]] families followed suit and settled in the major port towns of [[Honolulu County, Hawaii|Honolulu]] and [[Lahaina, Hawaii|Lāhainā]].  Upon their arrival, they erected the first frame houses in Hawai{{okina}}i, employing a style derived from the simple [[Congregational church|Congregational meeting-houses]] and farmhouse vernacular buildings of [[New England]].  [[Image:One of three houses (the easternmost) in the mission houses museum, Honolulu.jpg|thumb|right|One of the houses in the mission houses museum, Honolulu.]]
They were simple homes with high-pitched roofs and overlapping [[Weatherboarding|weatherboards]] called [[Clapboard (architecture)|clapboards]].  The simplicity and unassuming character of these structures were derived from the [[Puritan work ethic|puritan ideals]]&mdash;that plainness was a virtue of true [[Christianity|Christians]].  As the years passed, the New England style morphed into a distinctive style called Hawaiian mission architecture. New England methods and materials were replaced by methods and materials readily available to Hawaiians.<!--specific examples are needed: imported nails replaced by pegging? etc-->

[[Image:Kawaiahao.jpg|thumb|left|Kawaiaha{{okina}}o church.]]Hawaiian mission architecture moved away from construction solely using wood and experimented with the use of [[coral|coral blocks]] hewn from the [[reef]]s of the Hawaiian Islands.  Coral seemed plentiful and were comparable to bricks used for construction in New England.  When [[Kaahumanu|Queen Ka{{okina}}ahumanu]] converted to the Congregational denomination of Christianity, she commissioned the construction of a major church in what is now [[downtown Honolulu]].  [[Kawaiahao Church|Kawaiaha{{okina}}o Church]] is one of the longest-lasting relics of Hawaiian mission architecture using coral blocks.  Today, Kawaiaha{{okina}}o Church stands adjacent to the Mission Houses Museum, surviving examples of Hawaiian mission architecture using wood.

[[Image:Honolulu cathedral screen.jpeg|thumb|right|Interior of the cathedral of Our Lady of Peace]]At the same time that Congregational missionaries went about the construction of Kawaiaha{{okina}}o Church, French Catholic missionaries of the [[Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary]] under the leadership of Bishop [[Louis Désiré Maigret|Louis Maigret]] introduced their own version of Hawaiian mission architecture.  The difference was that their [[Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace]] project was based on simple French church architecture in the [[basilica]] form.  The regional twist, like the adaptation that Congregational missionaries embraced, was the use of coral blocks from the reefs of [[Ala Moana]] and [[Kakaako|Kaka{{okina}}ako]].  What the Picpus religious order succeeded in doing was creating the first instance of Hawaiian architecture based on continental European styles as opposed to the American puritan styles imported by the [[Protestants]].  The Picpus Fathers opened the doors to European architectural styles&mdash;[[classical architecture|classical]], [[baroque architecture|baroque]], [[Renaissance architecture|Renaissance]], [[Rococo]] and [[neoclassicism|neoclassical]] &mdash; that would become uniquely Hawaiian in the hands of local builders.