{"id":3262,"slug":"baldwin-home-lahaina-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Baldwin Home was the oldest — the '34 coral walls that were Maui's first Western house, the missionary doctor who lived there. The voyage was the six months — the Cape Horn that they rounded, the '31 arrival in Honolulu. The fire was the '23 — the Lahaina blaze that took it, the oldest house that's gone.","The medical was the service — the clinic that it housed, the 'scale of fees' that listed the sicknesses. The children were the eight — the two who died of dysentery, the six who grew in the additions. The Baldwin Home is the lost — the 24-inch walls that couldn't save it, the mission that's the memory.","The file keeps the Baldwin Home: the 1834 construction, the medical mission, the '23 fire, and the loss.","The Baldwin Home is the archive's Lahaina file — the oldest house that burned."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Baldwin Home is the archive's Lahaina file — the missionary's house.","A home keeps its fire — the file's suggestion being that the Baldwin's hold is the loss: the 1834 coral, the '23 destruction, and the medical service that was."]}],"name":"Baldwin Home","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_ESTATE","COLONIAL"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The oldest house in Lahaina—1835, the missionary doctor’s home.","full_desc":"Baldwin Home is a site in Lahaina, Hawaii. The oldest house in Lahaina—1835, the missionary doctor’s home. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the baldwins. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Lahaina","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":20.886048,"lon":-156.666195,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"HI2 batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3328,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The Baldwins are reportedly seen. The reports at Baldwin Home are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Baldwin Home'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Baldwins","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Baldwin Home","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Home_Museum","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3329,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the house. The site in Lahaina, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. Sources including 'Baldwin Home' keep the claim in circulation. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Baldwin Home","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Home_Museum","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1835 house is documented. Baldwin Home's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Baldwin Home'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1835","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Baldwin Home","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Home_Museum","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The Baldwins are reportedly seen. The reports at Baldwin Home are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Baldwin Home' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The account appears in 'Baldwin Home'. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Baldwin Home","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Home_Museum","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Baldwins","claimed_identity":"The Baldwins","verified":null,"summary":"The Baldwins are reportedly seen. The reports at Baldwin Home are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Baldwin Home' carries the account. The file keeps The Baldwins on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.","behavior":"The Baldwins are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Baldwin Home","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Home_Museum","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Baldwin Home","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Home_Museum","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}