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Bailey House Review
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Bailey House
Houses / Mansions, Central Maui
Fodor's Review:
This was the home of Edward and Caroline Bailey, two prominent missionaries who came to Wailuku to run the first Hawaiian girls' school on the island, the Wailuku Female Seminary. The school's main function was to train girls in the "feminine arts." It once stood next door to the Baileys' home, which they called Halehoikeike (House of Display), but locals always called it the Bailey House, and the sign painters eventually gave in. Construction of the house, between 1833 and 1850, was supervised by Edward Bailey himself. The Maui Historical Society runs a museum in the plastered stone house with a small collection of artifacts from before and after the missionaries' arrival and with Mr. Bailey's paintings of Wailuku. Some rooms have missionary-period furniture. The Hawaiian Room has exhibits on the making of tapa cloth, as well as samples of pre-Captain Cook weaponry.
INFO
- Address: 2375A Main St., Wailuku, HI
- Phone: 808/244-3326
- Web site
- Cost: $5
- Open: Mon.-Sat. 10-4
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