Talk:Elkmont, Tennessee

Builder of Avent Cabin
The Avent Cabin's application for National Registered Historic Place status states that the cabin was built by Sam Cook in 1850. This is apparently an error, since Cook wasn't born until 1873.

Bms4880 21:50, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Am I missing something?
How is this still a stub class article? It meets the criteria of B-class. If you think it's still a stub, please point out what it's missing. Bms4880 14:00, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

You are right! This is a B-class article
When I looked at this article today I still remembered the topic from when I rated it first, only a few months ago. It was quite a stub article then. What a great surprise to see the article coming out of its cocoon so quickly and developing into a B-class article.

Criteria for a B-class article are met, definitively. Images illustrate the topic nicely, sub-headers devide the topic and treat sub-topics appropriately. The history section is well structured from settlement until today and - best of all - a references section is used, this is going to encourage other authors to continue this tradition.

Just mentioning ... if you made major changes to your article you might want to get in contact with members of the Wikipedia projects your article is part of to request a change in their rating. Articles are not monitored all the time, so some great work might miss the attention for a while. I change the rating for the Tennessee project, please contact the other projects for a re-assessment of their quality rating.

doxTxob \ talk 04:28, 14 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok, good. Just making sure I wasn't missing anything.  Thanks.  Bms4880 21:33, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

name and bounds of NRHP district
The name of the NRHP as displayed in the NRHP infobox was "Elkmont Historic District, Great Smoky Mountains NP", which is what is in fact included in the National Register's NRIS database. But knowing how that very old database system works, I think it is an abbreviation of the actual name, so I expanded it to "Elkmont Historic District, Great Smoky Mountains National Park". Also it is stated in the article that Elkmont was listed on the NRHP, and probably in fact the entire community was, but it is conceivable that not the whole area was included in the NRHP district. It would be nice if this could be clarified. Another discussion thread above mentions the NRHP application document, which would probably be a great source about that. I'm not sure if that document is available on-line anywhere, but it is available for free upon request to the National Register, by email to "nr_reference (at) nps.gov". Hope this helps someone improve the article further. doncram (talk) 01:54, 18 July 2009 (UTC)


 * When I originally wrote the bulk of this article, the NPS and several entities were still bickering over what to do with the Elkmont cottages, so I didn't bother going into too much detail regarding the historic district. About three dozen of the cottages and few other structures were labelled "contributing."  The NPS finally released its FEIS regarding Elkmont back in May, essentially saying it plans to restore 18 of the cottages and the Appalachian Clubhouse.  Both the NRHP registration form and the FEIS statement are online.  I'll add more details over what's being restored when I get a chance.


 * The Avent Cabin, mentioned above, is a separate NRHP entry, and has its own article. Bms4880 (talk) 00:04, 19 July 2009 (UTC)