A modern regionalist design, Lihue Public Library is distinguished by its wide fascia and paraboloid roof that sweeps up from battered, lava-rock-veneer walls. The T-shaped building houses meeting rooms in the front wing and offices and the library in the rear. The roof's broad eaves amply shelter pedestrians from the elements.
Don J. Hibbard, "Lihue Public Library", [Lihue, Hawaii], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/HI-01-KA27.
Buildings of Hawaii, Don J. Hibbard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, 66-66.
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