Honolulu

'Iolani Palace

The architecture is romantic Italian Renaissance or Italianate style with fluted cast-iron Corinthian columns, decorative brackets and iron railings, mansard-style tower roofs at each corner and at the center of the mauka and makai elevations, window enframements with brackets and pediment crowns, and wide lanais on all sides.

`Iolani Palace was the official residence of the Hawaiian Kingdom's last two monarchs -- King Kalakaua, who built the Palace in 1882, and his sister and successor, Queen Lili'uokalani.

King Kalakaua and Queen Kapi'olani lived in the Palace from the time of its completion in 1882 until his death in 1891. His successor, Queen Lili'uokalani, lived in the Palace until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893.