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Ok, GRuban, I’ve added some images to demonstrate the social history of the site, and will be adding a bit more background for the people who settled in the area when I’m in a WiFi friendly area. I also found a bit more info about the family’s history as La_Réunion_(Dallas) colonists, so will be adding a few more images to the latter article as well. Thank you for being the overseeing collaborator. ^{Atsme📞📧} 13:39, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A few comments:

You have 1 picture of Henrietta and 2 of her parents, but no explanation of who Henrietta was in the text. I guess she was the wife of Frederick P. Wilson from the sentence "Fred and Henrietta had two children", but it's probably worth making that explicit, and adding at least a bit about her, if you're going to have all those photos. In fact, unless Henrietta's parents had a real impact on the Block, I think they're not really that relevant. I mean they're relevant to Henrietta, but to the Block? Did they even live in the Block?
If you keep Henrietta's parents, the "circa 1800s" captions on their photos seem doubtful. Henrietta seems maybe 20 in her picture labeled "circa 1900s", so that would mean that she would have been born circa 1880, right? Having children born in 1895 and 1897 implies maybe a few years before then, maybe 1870? There is no way parents who looked like those photos in 1800 would have a child in 1880 or even 1870. CD is clearly over 50, and Cleofea is likely over 40; having a child at the age of over 100 is beyond even 2018 medicine, much less 1870 medicine.
Also please choose whether you're going to call Frederick P. Wilson Fred or Frederick and be consistent. For this case it's more obvious, but I recently had to explain to someone that when a text referred to Alexandra in one place and Sasha in another, they meant the same person.
"Wilson then married Venna Lee Burnett (1910—1992),[9] and they lived in the house until 1977.[4] Wilson retained all of the original homes" - this is presumably Laurence? I mean, yes, we do in general want to use last names, but in this paragraph they're all Wilsons.
"owned and operated by The Meadows Foundation (Dallas)," - pipe the link to hide the (Dallas)? --GRuban (talk) 14:37, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nussbaumer, Frichot and a few others were the early colonists of La Réunion (Dallas) and all are related. Their dob is documented and I will get all the dates corrected, hopefully at the next stop. The Wilson Block included several homes and several of the early colonists settled in the block. I will include that in the history. I had a small window of opportunity to use WiFi, so I went ahead and uploaded the images for the gallery, and will add the Wilson Block history next break I get. We're back on the road again in a few, and I may not have a chance again until tomorrow night. Venna Lee & Laurence F. Wilson were the last of the Wilsons to occupy 2922 Swiss Ave. L.F. Wilson sold the block with the stipulations to keep it a historic site. I'll be uploading their photos later. I will also wikilink to all the other WP articles that are related in history. It's giving me something to do at our stop-overs, and I thank you for your patience and review.

No hurry, these are nits, not something terrible. I do like the pictures, especially of Frederick P. Wilson, a fine figure of a man! --GRuban (talk) 18:24, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, GRuban I've reached a place to pause for a while so you can ~~nitpick~~ review the article when you get a chance. 😊 ^{Atsme📞📧} 01:49, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Some tweaks made. Apparently we're supposed to use endashes for ranges like (birth-death), per WP:DASH; learn something every day. Is there a reason you need the F in every mention of Laurence F, since he's the only Laurence in the article? Does the F stand for Frichot? And I still worry about the (circa 1800s) for Henrietta's parents, for the same reasons. I gather you are trying to indicate "somewhere between 1800 and 1899", but to me 1800s means a decade, rather than a century. Maybe "nineteenth century" if you don't know? Or no date at all? --GRuban (talk) 15:29, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]