C. Brewer Building, Honolulu

C. Brewer & Company is one of Hawaii's “Big Five” corporations- originally a group of five sugarcane processing companies that had political power during the early 20th century, and were heavily inclined towards Hawaii's Republican party. The C. Brewer Building was the headquarters of C. Brewer & Company.

The building itself was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Hardie Phillip, two famous architects known for their work in the neo-Gothic style. The C. Brewer Building was made in a Mediterranean Revival style, of reinforced concrete, cut sandstone, plaster, and stucco. The building features a walled garden, balconies on the second floor, and a tiled, double-pitched roof of a type pioneered by architect C. W. Dickey. The iron railings were meant to represent growing sugar cane, while the lighting was made to resemble sugar cubes, hearkening back to C. Brewer & Company origins as a a sugarcane processing company.

Eventually, C. Brewer & Company switched from sugarcane to other products, and expanded the real-estate arm of the company. It sold the building and moved. Today, the C. Brewer building houses the the Honolulu branch of the University of Phoenix. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.