Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives

This guide to the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site in Honolulu starts with a New England-style frame house shipped in pieces around Cape Horn in 1821 and crowded with the Reverend Daniel Chamberlain's family of nine, plus up to five more families on top of them. It follows the missionaries' long standoff with Ka'ahumanu, the kingdom's powerful queen regent, and the sudden reversal that made her a Christian in 1824. Look for the coral-block building raised alongside this original wooden house a decade later.