Talk:Idaho Republican Building

architectural style?
User:MB, you put "It was designed by architects Cannon & Fetzer in the late 19th and 20th century and Mission/Spanish Revival style" into the article. What does that mean, at all? The photo does not show a Mission Revival architecture building AFAICT. Also referring to "the late 19th and 20th century style" seems nonsensical. ;) --Doncram (talk) 12:47, 27 December 2019 (UTC)


 * , you put those there originally, I presume from NRIS. I was just trying to work them into prose.


 * The nom says: "The completed building represents the application of the principles of the current revival styles—the Spanish mission with its tiled roofs and round arches; the monumental Second Renaissance Revival with its symmetry, horizontal articulation and enriched cornice treatments—to a small- sized, small-town commercial building."


 * I guess the Spanish Mission label was applied mostly due to the barrel-tiled upper facade, not really a roof - more of a mansard or slanted parapet hiding a flat roof. (the nom says "pent roof", a term I have never heard before). National Register of Historic Places architectural style categories says "Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals" is used on "buildings designed in an amalgam of several to many revival styles that defy a singular or simpler classification title."


 * I was trying to say "late 19th and 20th century" revival and "Mission/Spanish" revival styles without repeating revival & style. Go ahead and improve it as you see fit. We add a bunch of more text, or drop the details and just say "designed with elements of several architectural styles per the owners request that the building be small and functional while still looking grand." MB 15:02, 27 December 2019 (UTC)