Old Greenwell Store and Post Office 96750 National Register Plaque (Kealakekua, Hawaiʻi)

The Greenwell Store is an historic, stone building that originally served the Kealakekua community as a mercantile and post office. It is now run as a museum by the Kona Historical Society.

Henry Nicholas Greenwell (1826-1891) was an English merchant who originally came to Hawaiʻi in 1850. He went back to England in 1867, and returned and married Elizabeth Caroline Hall (1841-1934). They lived in a wooden house, (the foundation is still visible) and had a stone house built that was used as a store since 1870. The building is a simple rectangle about 25 feet (7.6 meters) by 55 feet (17 meters) with a basement, main floor, and attic. Walls are 24-inches- (61-centemeters-) thick, made of stones with mortar.

Since Greenwell served as Postmaster, the town that grew up around the store was known as Kealakekua, Hawaiʻi, even though the actual traditional land division of that name is further south. The Hawaii Belt Road now runs past the store.

Descendant Norman Leonard Greenwell (1926-1992) and his wife Jean Greenwell (1929-2009) were founders of the Kona Historical society in 1976. In 1978, the store was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The society restored the former store to its appearance ca. 1875, and opened it as a museum. The store was added to the state of Hawaii registry of historic places in 1991. Another nearby Greenwell property, the Kona Coffee Living History Farm, is also open for tours by the society. Both sites hold significance for the Japanese-American community of Kona.

Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwell_Store

Kealakekua, Hawaiʻi is a small community located to the southeast of Kailua-Kona on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

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Taken on: April 2, 2024

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