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Palmer Mansion

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Sep 2010 at 20:52:33 (UTC)

Original - Palmer Mansion, an important Chicago (dun dun dun! - but seriously, stop being so anal about that. If we get a lot of high-quality content about it, that's only a plus =) ) landmark destroyed in 1951. A district of Chicago sprung up around it.

Reason

Historical view of a destroyed building. Only high-quality image I can find with the documented colours. The tree is a little unfortunate, but since the building no longer exists...

Articles in which this image appears

Palmer Mansion, Lake Shore Drive, Potter Palmer, Bertha Palmer, Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago, Illinois)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture

Creator

Detroit Publishing Co.

• Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:52, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose because the building is so obscured. I get how valuable and irreplaceable this is (it would be the perfect nom for my failed "valued pictures that actually means something" proposal...) but the fact "we can't do any better" does not make it feature-worthy. J Milburn (talk) 22:05, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose It is, obviously, a rare file, but with the, well, forest in front of it obscuring the view, it is not particularly asthetic. WackyWace ^{converse | contribs} 13:15, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a lousy composition of a building before. I wouldn’t have taken this picture when I was 7 years old. Greg L (talk) 16:57, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose per J Milburn -- The historical value makes me want to like this picture much more, but there are just too many problems with the composition. Tim Pierce (talk) 00:59, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose per J. Milburn. Spikebrennan (talk) 02:38, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:46, 22 September 2010 (UTC)