The Brick Palace was the first western-style structure built in the Hawaiian Islands for Kamehameha the Great to serve as the first Royal Palace.[1] The location became the seat of government for the Hawaiian Kingdom until 1845.[2][3] The king commissioned the structure to be built at Keawa'iki point in Lahaina, Maui.[4] Two foreign, ex-convicts from Australia's Botany Bay penal colony built the home.[5] It was begun in 1798 and was completed after 4 years in 1802.[6][7] The house was intended for Kamehameha's favorite and most powerful wife, Kaahumanu,[8] but she refused to live in the structure and resided instead in a traditional Hawaiian-styled home only feet away.[4]
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