Template talk:Did you know/Highland Cottage

Highland Cottage

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The result was: promoted by Sharktopus ^talk

• ... that Highland Cottage (pictured) in Ossining, New York, the first concrete house in Westchester County, was nicknamed "Mud House" during its construction?

• ALT1:... that Evelyn Culp started a business school in Highland Cottage (pictured), the Ossining, New York, house she was born in?
• Reviewed: Siege of Jerusalem (63 BCE) ([1])

5x expanded by Daniel Case (talk). Self nom at 19:31, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
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• For some reason I see the review template on T:DYK, but not as part of this subpage. So, "old style": date, length, expansion, pic fine. I cannot verify the "first concrete house in W.C.", the source doesn't open (my system's fault). But the first hook seems more interesting. I wonder why the "Mud house" name is ref 4 (offline), whereas it's also in ref3? (Just for the "during construction" part?) The prose seems sufficiently different from the sources I can see. - Different question: I suggest to include Ossining in the article, Highland Cottage doesn't seem unique. - If we go for the alternative hook - and perhaps why not, but then why is EC interesting? - I suggest:
• ALT2:... that Evelyn Culp started a business school in the house where she was born, the Highland Cottage (pictured), in Ossining, New York? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:32, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

OK, you can accept the first part of the hook in good faith yourself, or have someone whose browser can handle the JavaScript look at it.

I am unclear as to what you mean by "I suggest to include Ossining in the article, Highland Cottage doesn't seem unique" ... are you saying that "(Ossining, New York)" should be included in the article title as a disambiguation term? I didn't because there aren't any other ones. I agree it's likely that there may be some other notable building with that name at some point; however it doesn't exist now. I don't think we add disambiguation to an article title just on the purely theoretical likelihood that another article with the same name will be likely to be necessary in the future (Compare with Academy Street Historic District (Poughkeepsie, New York), where I have the disambiguation in the title because there is another Academy Street Historic District listed on the National Register in Madison, North Carolina, although we don't yet have the article on it).

As for Evelyn Culp ... no, she's certainly not notable enough to merit an article based on what we know now but I thought it was a better hook with her name rather than "a woman".

The hook uses information from two separate references. The "Mud House" is in ref 4 (the huge PDF), while the first concrete house thing is in ref 3 (the NRHP nom that you can't read). Daniel Case (talk) 18:30, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

original hook appr in good faith, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:48, 3 August 2011 (UTC)