Talk:Gold Coast Historic District (Richland, Washington)

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Chronology garbled
This article redundantly recounts the history of Richland, which has its own entry, without clarifying how the Gold Coast district fits in. The historic district was built after the war, starting around 1950, as part of the Cold War expansion of plutonium manufacturing. Whoever takes on the task of editing this should also find out when it came to be called the "Gold Coast". I left the neighborhood in 1956 as a child, and it definitely didn't have the name then. Incidentally, Richland was never a closed town -- another error that should be corrected. --Cpacker666 (talk) 02:41, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * The reference in the article is the original application for the National Register of Historic Places. It very clearly indicates the period of significance as 1943-1949, and the text puts the build dates well be fore 1950. "The Gold Coast Historic District was constructed between 1943 and 1949 by the United States government through contracts initially with the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (DuPont), and later the General Electric Company." It also says, "The name "Gold Coast" was an informal reference to the area in the 1940s and 50s because it provided housing for white-collar employees and executives/managers of the Hanford Engineer Works (HEW) and was later home to many of the community's doctors, lawyers and other higher income professionals."  I dont want to doubt your childhood recollections, but they dont reconcile with the statements in the NRHP, and would be OR anyway (Original Research, a wikipedia no-no). If you have reference-backed information, please share it.  Thanks! Nothingofwater (talk) 00:32, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

The original article dated the neighborhood incorrectly from the early 1940s because it was based largely on the introductory material in the application for historic status. That content is misleading because for some reason it contains background history of Richland as a whole. From the document's enumeration of the properties to be included in the historic district, however, it's clear that the district was intended to include only several dozen houses built in the 1948-49 construction boom after General Electric had become the Hanford operator. I have rewritten the article to remedy these errors. Cpacker666 (talk) 03:03, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Better explanation of the 'alphabet houses'
Can someone add an explanation of the 'alphabet houses' mentioned in the article? Having lived in Richland, in one of these houses, I get it - but to an outsider it may not be obvious. An explanation with citations would be great. Nothingofwater (talk) 19:56, 31 December 2018 (UTC)