Template:Did you know nominations/Twelfth Street Meeting House

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The result was: promoted by Gatoclass (talk) 09:58, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Twelfth Street Meeting House

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Removal of the first truss, July 1972.

... that the roof trusses from Philadelphia's 1755 Great Meeting House (demolished 1812) have been recycled twice (pictured)?

Comment: The trusses were disassembled and reused in Philadelphia's Twelfth Street Meeting House (built 1812–13, dismantled and relocated 1972); and currently support the roof of the George School Meeting House (built 1973–74) in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Created by BoringHistoryGuy (talk). Self-nominated at 17:54, 25 March 2016 (UTC).

size fine, age fine, written neutrally, no copyvio detected with earwig's tool, hook sourced and material faithful to source (though obviously condensed for hook!). good to go. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:59, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that after Philadelphia's Great Meeting House, first built in 1755, was demolished, its dismantled roof trusses were re-assembled to build a new house in 1812, and again for a third house in 1972 (second dismantling pictured)? --PFHLai (talk) 00:42, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

I have pulled this from p5 as the article has a lot of unsourced statements. Gatoclass (talk) 11:12, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, folks, for evaluating this for DYK.

I've added 25 more footnotes. Most of them link to the video of restoration architect Charles Hough's 2008 slide lecture, the essay by Hough on the George School website, and Mark Franek's interview with Hough. My descriptions of the building's interior spaces are based on the video, and on Hough's architectural drawings (shown in the video). I'm not sure how to cite these more precisely. Please let me know if you think it needs additional footnotes.

I'm hoping to add color photos of the interior and exterior, but will need permission from The George School. The work Hough did here really is exceptional. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 17:38, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

- Most of review already done by Cas Liber. Well done BoringHistoryGuy for fixing the unsourced statements; this article now has plently. For future reference its always good to have each sentence (or 2) with a reference to help people navigate where information has come from. I think we should go with ALT0 as the alternative is too long. A nice interesting article, well done again, ツStacey (talk) 09:45, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, Cas Liber. It was reading Hough's obituary last month that inspired me to start the article. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:11, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

I had to pull this from prep again because the link to the article's major reference - a lecture called "It's all about the trusses" - points to the wrong source. Gatoclass (talk) 09:02, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Gatoclass. Take another look. The video doesn't have its own url, but the link takes you to the page with the video on the George School's website. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:55, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

No, it doesn't. It goes to a HABS/HAER link. Gatoclass (talk) 22:59, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

You're right. Sorry. The video is there in the external links. I corrected the url in the footnote. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 11:38, 2 May 2016 (UTC)