Richardson Beach

[2] George Richardson was the former Chief Detective of the County of Hawaii, and a descendant of Kekuiapoiwa, mother of Kamehameha I, and her second husband Kamanawa,[3] received the land as a gift of gratitude from the Malo family.

In 1920, when the entire Malo family was stricken with typhoid fever, Elena, the least severely afflicted of them all, walked to the home of George Richardson on Reeds Bay to seek help.

Malo helped design the structure, recommending the large doors at the front and back of the house to provide a corridor for the periodic inundations by high winter surf and tsunami.

This gracious former residential estate, known today as Richardson Ocean Park, recalls old Hawaii with its Craftsman-style detailing and lava rock columns and foundation walls.

Its striking shoreline landscape fronting the Pacific Ocean is defined by a meandering coconut grove, hau trees, tropical plantings, a swimming cove, fishponds, anchialine pools, and sea walls.