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Photograph of Albert Spencer Wilcox Building
Photograph by Joel Bradshaw, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Albert Spencer Wilcox Building

Built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Albert Spencer Wilcox Building is a historic building in Hawaii. Originally a library when it opened in 1924, it was later converted into the Museum.”

Wikipedia article Albert Spencer Wilcox Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Kauai County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1924, by Hart Wood.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Wilcox, Albert Spencer, Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 4420 Rice St., Lihue, 96766
  • When was it listed? May 1979
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Lihue
  • When was it built? 1924
  • Architect. Hart Wood
  • National Register reference number. 79000760 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

215 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Albert Spencer Wilcox Building between 2001 and 2016, burning about 1,796 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined212
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
5 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
26 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresCounty of Kaua'inot named
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named
22 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCounty of Kaua'inot named

Every fire recorded in Kauai County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Albert Spencer Wilcox Building: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Aluminum, Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Titanium, Water, Free, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bluestone Quarry and MillStoneProducer
East Central Kauai DepositAluminum, Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Titanium, Water, Free, SilicaProspect1949
45 Hm QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kapaia Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kauai County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Lihue Civic Center Historic Districtunder 500 feet1981
US Post Office-Lihue0.1 miles1989
Grove Farm (Boundary Increase)0.6 miles1978
Grove Farm0.8 miles1974
Lihue Hongwanji Mission1.1 miles1978
Menehune Fishpond1.9 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000760 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kauai CountyAll 39 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.