Talk:Harvard Square Subway Kiosk

Wrong image
The picture in this article is not of the historic kiosk, which is out of the frame to the left. It is of a new kiosk, used as an information booth, built as part of the Red Line extension in the 1980s. Lentower (talk) 10:09, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Hertz1888 (talk) 18:31, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Merge from Out of Town News
Discussion was here, as User:Hertz1888 was the only active user to perform any significant edits on either article. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:14, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

“Headhouses”
Except in the most foamerly usage, in which every structure not a platform on the surface is a “headhouse”, this word has two meanings: a substantial free-standing structure holding the workings of an elevator, manlift, and so forth above ground, or an actual building of offices, waiting rooms and other more developed spaces next to a more open shed-like structure. If the kiosk were split out, the pieces would not really qualify as headhouses, the kiosk itself is borderline. Qwirkle (talk) 14:15, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not quite sure what you mean. From my experience, "headhouse" means "any freestanding station entrance from a small kiosk on up". The MBTA uses "headhouse" and "entrance" almost interchangeably (1, 2, 3, 4), as do the city, developers, and the report that's the most significant source for this article. The term is also used by (from a quick search) BART, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and SFMTA all seem to use "headhouse" as well for freestanding entrances of any size. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:39, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Notice that source one refers to a single headhouse, the primary entrance. How many ways out of Scollay are there? Cite two uses “headhouse” for the upper works and housing on elevators, i.e. a meaning that would have been understood by a collier from 200 years ago. Good on ‘em. Three I can’t evaluate offhand because I can no longer remember the Garden/North Station setup well enough; it’s over 40 years since I set foot, and twenty since passing right by. Park Street? A serious structure, so much that it caught some flak for it...and yet one originally designated simply as an entrance or exit, IMS. So, no I don’t think that supports the idea that any old hole in out of the ground qualifies. Qwirkle (talk) 07:26, 25 August 2020 (UTC)