"The foundation and walls have already been completed," stated Greg Marshall, Project Chairman, "and we finally have funds and a contractor ready to proceed immediately to complete the restoration of this architecturally unique and historic home. However, for reasons we cannot determine, the new Park Superintendent, Marilyn Parris, is blocking our contractor from the site and has stated in a television interview that the structure will be torn down."

 

The Project was started with the support of U.S. Senators Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka Hawaii, Governors Benjamin Cayatano and Linda Lingle, and dozens of aviators, historians, and preservationists. One of the Argonauta Project’s foremost supporters is Donald Reeser, the former Superintendent of Haleakala National Park, who aided Marshall in the ten-year process of permits, environmental assessments and legal issues. Marshall went on to state, "We can complete the project in just a few months, at which point we will donate the home to the National Park Service. The Park Service needs buildings at their visitor center, and with their current budget constraints we simply don’t understand why the new superintendent is opposed to receiving this unique structure free of charge for their use."

U.S. Congresswoman Mazie K. Hirono
5-104 Prince Kuhio Federal Building
300 Ala Moana Blvd.
Honolulu, Hawaii 96850

Phone: 808-242-1818 (Maui)

Phone: 808-541-1986 (Oahu)
Fax: 808-538-0233

Email: Joshua.Wisch@mail.house.gov

Jon Jarvis, Pacific West Director
National Park Service
1 Jackson Center, 1111 Jackson Street, Suite 700
Oakland, California 94607
Fax: 510-817-1325
E-Mail: jon_jarvis@nps.gov

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Frank R. Hayes, Pacific Area Director
National Park Service
P.O. Box 50165
Honolulu, Hawaii 96850
Fax: 808-541-3696

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Marilyn Parris, Superintendent
Haleakala National Park, Maui
National Park Service

P.O. Box 369

Makawao, 96768

Phone: 808-572-4401
Fax: 808-572-1304

Email: marilyn_h_parris@nps.gov

Email: hale_superintendent@nps.gov

Park Website: http://www.nps.gov/hale

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U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye
Prince Kuhio Federal Building
300 Ala Moana Blvd., Room 7212
Honolulu, Hawaii 96850
Fax: 202-224-6747
E-Mail: Jennifer_Sabas@inouye.senate.gov

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The Honorable Linda Lingle
Governor, State of Hawai`i
Executive Chambers
State Capitol
Honolulu, Hawai`i 96813
Phone: 808-586-0034
Fax: 808-586-0006
E-Mail: governor.lingle@hawaii.gov

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Assistant Field Solicitor

Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor

San Francisco Field Office

1111 Jackson Street, Suite 735

Oakland, CA 94607

Phone: 510-817-1462

Fax: 510-419-0143

E-Mail: bardwickdoi@gmail.com

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The National Trust for Historic Preservation
1785 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Fax 202 588-6038
E-Mail: info@nthp.org

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