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Winds destroy replica of historic grass hut

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From: Honolulu Star - Bulletin
Date: 20030809
Author:Mueller, Michelle

Guests once strolled through an old Hawaiian thatched house at the Manoa Waioli Tea Room and imagined a simpler Hawaii, when author Robert Louis Stevenson lived there and Princess Kaiulani played on the lanai.

But on Aug. 1, strong winds knocked down a protective structure that crushed the Robert Louis Stevenson Grass House.

"It's as flat as a pancake," said Daniel de Costa, spokesman for the Salvation Army, which owns the property.

The house's only furniture, a table and chairs, is propping up the roof of woven coconut leaves. Heaps of pili grass bundles litter the garden.

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