The star on this map is his grandmother's apartment. The large shaded building to the north is Kapiolani Hospital.
Also notice how close they are to Punahou school. I need to map out the birth annoucement address it might be closer to Queen's Hospital.
Re: this:
my grandparents’ first house in Hawaii, before the one on University Avenue, a house I had never known.”
My thought is that house - the first house - is the address referenced in the birth announcement. I think it was the grandparents' house and I think they rented - just my gut on that.
I mapped the address from the birth announcement after first seeing it and it is 7 miles from the University. Obama’s grandparents lived in a “modest wooden house on University Avenue near Kamanele Park” (Hawaii Advertiser link provided previously) prior to the apartment on Beretania St. I still believe that grandma registered the birth and used her position in the escrow dept to give the address for a ‘safe’ house.