Honolulu House, Italianate building in Marshall, US.

The Honolulu House is a residential building in Marshall designed in the Italianate style, distinguished by elaborate cornices, tall arched windows, and decorative brackets. The exterior displays carefully detailed ornamentation typical of 1800s Italian-influenced architecture.

Abner Pratt, a former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and US consul to Hawaii under President James Buchanan, built the house in 1860 after years in the islands, across the street from the 1841 house he gave his daughter as a wedding gift. Pratt died of pneumonia in 1863. The house was renovated in 1951 and acquired in 1961 by the Marshall Historical Society as a museum.

Abner Pratt had the walls painted with tropical scenes recalling his years as US consul in Hawaii, and the wraparound porch echoes the 'Iolani Palace. The house stands across the street from the 1841 house he built as a wedding gift for his daughter. It has served as a museum since the Marshall Historical Society acquired it in 1961.

The house stands at 402 E. Michigan Avenue, across the street from the 1841 house Pratt built for his daughter. The Marshall Historical Society runs it as a museum; the wraparound veranda, ornamental columns on sandstone piers and pagoda-roofed tower are visible from the street. The five-foot sandstone foundation raises the main floor above sidewalk level.

The wraparound porch was modeled on the veranda of 'Iolani Palace in Honolulu, and the interior walls were painted with tropical scenes. Abner Pratt, who had lived in the Hawaiian islands for years, died of pneumonia in 1863, only three years after the house was finished.