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Kailua’s Boettcher Estate was wealthy clan’s escape

COURTESY ANNA MARIE GRUNE

The wealthy Boettcher family from Denver bought 4 acres of land on Kailua Beach in 1935 and had Val Ossipoff design a classic seven-bedroom residence. The 80-year-old property is now sorely feeling the effects of time.