[1][3] Also listed on the state register, restoration of the building was completed in 2003 after being damaged in Hurricane Iniki.

It was deemed "significant as a surviving example of the vernacular wood commercial buildings constructed in Hawaii in the early twentieth century.

The unsupported pent roofs at the sidewalk are characteristic of Hanapepe's commercial buildings.

"[3]: 3 It was deemed significant also for association with the 1920s and 1930s growth of Hanapepe, a town that is unique in Kauai for developing not as a plantation town, but rather as workers left plantations elsewhere and moved to the area to farm and to open businesses.

[3] This article about a property in Hawaii on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.