ISLAND HISTORY: The old Wailua Ranch Hotel at Pihanakalani, Kauai

ISLAND HISTORY: The old Wailua Ranch Hotel at Pihanakalani, Kauai

In 1951, rancher Richard Henry Sloggett of Kauai sold his 71-acre Wailua Ranch at Pihanakalani on the banks of the Wailua River (now the site of a Hindu monastery and temple) to Honolulu manufacturer’s representative Carl H. Duhrsen. Duhrsen then renovated and converted the former Fred and Juliet Rice Wichman’s two-story ranch house, built in 1929 on Wailua Ranch, into a hotel, and opened it to the public in 1954 as the Wailua Ranch Hotel, with …