The Kamehameha Schools founded in 1887 by Bernice Pauahi Bishop was created to educate the Hawaiian population and produce good and industrious students.
Kamehameha Schools Kapalama was originally established as an all-boys school for Native Hawaiians. Seven years later in 1894, the school was opened up to girls, with the boys school being located where bishop museum is now. The boys and girls schools were kept separate until 1965 when Kamehameha Schools closed the boys school and became coeducational. I found it crazy that the "sperm tree" as students call it was planted by the very first graduating class of Kamehameha Kapalama.
After taking both a campus tour as a class, and listening to a guest speaker, I learned so many things about the history of this school and its buildings. I came to this school in kindergarten, but this tour was the first time I was taught about the reasoning behind the names of the buildings. Our "tour guide" told us that women were looked at as having more mana because they had the capability of giving birth. For this reason, all buildings at the top of the campus are named after women except for Smith Office (named after William O. Smith) and Midkiff Learning Center (named after Frank E. Midkiff). I also learned that Keopulani was the Kamehameha's most sacred and highest ranking wife, and because of that no buildings will be built above the Keopulani dorms.
Some buildings on campus are extremely old and are recorded under the Historic American Buildings Survey, because of the design and architect who created it. Because of this, these buildings are prohibited from being knocked down and/or rebuilt.
Hale Ola was used as a hospital in World War II after the Japanese bombed pearl harbor along with various other airfields and dry docks. It was primarily used for injured women and children. It was also later used as a maternity hospital.