deBrum House

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The deBrum House (also: Debrum House ) on Likiep Island in the Likiep -Atoll of the Marshall Islands is the property of a former plantation, which was built in 1888 by Joachim deBrum. Joachim deBrum was the son of Jose deBrum, who bought the atoll together with Georg Eduard Adolph Capelle . The owner family lived there until 1940. Today, the house is the only significant plantation building that has survived in the Marshall Islands or Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands . It survived the German and Japanese times and the two world wars and still played a certain role in the early post-war period . 1976 was included in the National Register of Historic Places of the United States included.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Park Service : National Register of Historic Places
  2. ↑ Gister deBrum. National Register of Historic Places Inventory / Nomination: deBrum House (PDF). National Park Service.

Coordinates: 9 ° 49 ′ 21 ″  N , 169 ° 18 ′ 23 ″  E