We recently went on a school tour to learn more about the history and meanings behind each building and their name. The placings of each buildings are important to what the buildings were named. The designs of each building are all in reflection of the time period they were built in. For example the highest building on campus is the the girls dorm called Keaopulani. She was Kamehameha Iʻs highest ranking wife. As such there will never be a building built higher then that dorm. As for the historical part of the buildings Kamehameha was originally an army preparatory school so the girls were taught nursing and the boys where all required to be in JROTC. As a reflection of that the boys dorms where built simplistically to mimic army barracks. As shown in the slide show below you will see Hale Kukui. That was the imaginary line that divided the upper campus (Girls school) and lower campus (Boys School). From there if you stand on one side of the street and face Waikiki you can really see the difference in the buildings. If you look to your right you see the simple cookie cutter buildings of the old Boys school. Squat and simple in design for the most part. And to the left the intricate and tall buildings of the old girls school. All of the buildings all aesthetically pleasing and creatively built from the dinning hall to the dorms all are very intricate in design.