Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Emory, Walter L. November 19, 1868 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

WALTER L. EMORY, Architect. Walter L. Emory, successful Honolulu architect, 
was one of the young men who came to Hawaii in the late 90’s to make fortunes 
growing coffee. Tales of the large sums to be made by investment in coffee 
plantations were current throughout the United States, and in 1898 Mr. Emory 
relinquished a profitable business in Fitchburg, Mass., to come to the islands.
  He invested in the Olaa lands, which at that time were growing coffee, but 
sold out shortly afterward when he discovered that coffee was not as 
profitable as had been reputed, and took a position as assistant 
superintendent of construction on the Alexander Young Hotel building. From 
1901 to 1908 he was employed on construction work by private interests and the 
Territory and in 1909 formed a partnership with Marshall H. Webb, under the 
firm name of Emory & Webb, which has since been maintained.
  There was but one other architectural concern in Honolulu at that time, and 
Emory & Webb immediately took a leading place in the building activities of 
Honolulu. Many large buildings have been constructed by the firm, including 
the Union Trust Co., P.E.R. Strauch building, the new Palama Theater, 
Blaisdell Hotel, Hawaii Theater, new Central Union Church, Loves’ Bakery, the 
Liberty House annex, Castle Hall Dormitory at Punahou, Cooke Art Gallery at 
Punahou, Advertiser building, Elizabeth Waterhouse Memorial Tank at Punahou, 
James Campbell building and many public buildings.
  Mr. Emory is an ardent collector of stamps and has one of the finest 
philatelic collections in the Territory. He is a member of the American 
Institute of Architects, American Association of Engineers, Oahu Country Club, 
Commercial Club, Honolulu Ad Club, and is a life member of Honolulu Lodge of 
Elks.
  Born November 19, 1868, in Fitchburg, Mass., the son of William Childs and 
Georgianna (Leavitte) Emory, Mr. Emory’s education was received in the public 
schools of Fitchburg and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  In 1892 he married Winifred A. Pike of Pike, N.H., and the couple have two 
children, William C. Emory, assistant sales manager for the Witherow Steel 
Co., in Detroit, and Kenneth P. Emory, ethnologist with the Bishop Museum, now 
in the South Seas investigating and studying the origin of the Polynesian race.


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