Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Wood, Hart December 26, 1880 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

HART WOOD, Architect. After appending sixteen years with one of the leading 
architectural firms and in private practise in San Francisco, Hart Wood came 
to Honolulu in 1919, and has since designed several buildings and beautiful 
homes throughout the Territory. He has specialized on residences, adapting the 
Spanish-Colonial and other appropriate types of architecture to the 
requirements of Honolulu, and has established a reputation for the designing 
of buildings suitable to the semi-tropical climate.
  He designed the Christian Science Church, and the residences of Herman von 
Holt, Mrs. C. M. Cooke, Dr. James A. Morgan, George de S. Canavarro, Francis 
Brown, Dr. G. M. Van Poole and others. He also designed the public library and 
the Lihue Union Church Parish House at Lihue, Kauai.
  Mr. Wood is a life member of the Queen’s Hospital, a Mason and a member of 
the Commercial Club and the American Institute of Architects.
  Before coming to Hawaii, he was associated from 1903 to 1914 with the firm 
of Bliss & Faville, San Francisco architects who designed the St. Francis 
Hotel, Columbia Theater, Bank of California, Masonic Temple, Savings Union 
Bank and several buildings of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and 
from 1914 to 1919 he was senior member of the firm of Wood & Simpson, San 
Francisco.
  Born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 26, 1880, Mr. Wood is the son of Thomas Hart 
Benton and Margaret (Spencer) Wood. In 1906 he married Jessie E. Spangler of 
Oakland and they have four children, Hart, Jr., Benton S., Kenneth Donald and 
Thomas Laurence Wood.


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