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Chinatown's Japanese residents opened theaters, hotels, cafes, and bars that served the Japanese population. Japanese immigrants were followed by Filipinos and Portuguese, making Chinatown one of the most ethnically diverse areas in Honolulu. By the late s, Chinatown had begun to decline as many of the Chinese residents moved to other areas of Honolulu to live while still keeping their businesses in the district.
With America's entry into World War II, however, Chinatown enjoyed a new vitality when its nightclubs, restaurants, brothels along Hotel Street, and gambling parlors became a popular destination for the large military population on the islands. After the war, Chinatown fell into a long slow decline, becoming known as a hotspot for illegal activities. During the s and s, the number of people living in Chinatown continued to drop and businesses began to suffer.
The opening of the Ala Moana Shopping Center in , located two miles to the southeast, meant that shoppers no longer frequented the stores in downtown Honolulu or Chinatown. Also that year, Hawaii became the 50th U. By , tourism had overtaken sugar and pineapple as the main industry in the islands, and as areas such as Waikiki, three miles down the coast from Chinatown, became popular tourist destinations fewer and fewer people frequented Chinatown.
As a result, the area began to revitalize and the city started to invest in Chinatown and its unique history. Government spending re-energized the local economy and encouraged private investors to return to the district.
In the s, Maunakea Marketplace, which incorporates the front of an older theater, and Kekaulike Mall were built to help bring commerce back to Chinatown. The residents and business owners of Chinatown were instrumental in the district's rebirth, setting up nonprofits and corporations, and working with the city to preserve and grow Chinatown. Today, Honolulu's Chinatown is once again a vibrant commercial district with smaller traditional businesses such as restaurants, shops, and bars existing alongside a growing number of art galleries and artists' studios.
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Chinatown Historic District is the largest area in Honolulu that reflects an architectural and historic character with a distinctive sense of time and place. Most of the buildings in the district were built between and , with only a very few predating the Chinatown fire of The Royal Saloon Building, constructed in , is one of a handful of buildings in Chinatown to have survived the fire.
The design of the one-story Royal Saloon Building is a blend of Florentine Gothic and Renaissance Revival Styles with cast iron decorations and white stucco pilasters, balustrade, and cornice. Another survivor of the fire, the T. Foster Building, was constructed in by Thomas R. Located at Nu'uanu Avenue, the Italianate-style building has white stucco pilasters, balustrade, and cornice that are similar to the Royal Saloon Building across the street. Owned by William G. Irwin, a sugarcane entrepreneur, the two-story building was designed by architects C.
Ripley and Charles William Dickey in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and built out of rough-hewn volcanic stone and brick. In , Nippu Jiji, a Japanese-language newspaper, purchased the building and added its name and the date "" to the top of the structure to mark the paper's founding.
Mendoca was a member of the Annexation Party's Committee on Public Safety, which helped to overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy and the Kingdom of Hawai'i in , forming the Republic of Hawaii in The Mendoca Block Building was one of the first buildings constructed in Chinatown after the fire. The market still operates from its original building which is made of bricks and coral blocks, with a stone foundation and a wooden roof.
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