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Black Hawk County Soldiers Memorial Hall

 * ... that the Black Hawk County Soldiers Memorial Hall in Waterloo, Iowa, was built by the Grand Army of the Republic?
 * Reviewed: Ficus subpisocarpa
 * Comment: I found all of the information that I could for this article. It is on the National Register of Historic Places, but their website has no listings for any of the buildings in Waterloo, Iowa. Also, the website CedarNet was compiled by a Board of Directors. The website's design is awful though. SL93 (talk) 02:45, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Created/expanded by SL93 (talk). Self nominated at 02:40, 20 July 2013 (UTC).


 * SL93, sometimes I find This Site helpful. — Maile (talk) 15:41, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

About the Grand Army of the Republic not doing the construction, I was using the print source that was co-authored by David Gebhard. Well, I guess even notable historians can get things wrong. SL93 (talk) 17:04, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article is new enough and long enough. Hook is short enough. I've taken the liberty of doing a bit of clean-up work on the article and modifying the hook slightly to reflect the fact that the hall was "sponsored" rather than "built" by the GAR.  Article and hook now look fine.  SL, if you are local and could add a properly licensed photo, the building is fairly attractive and this could be a lead hook. Cbl62 (talk) 16:57, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I wish that I could get a picture, but Waterloo is a little over 3 hours away from where I live and I don't drive. I was planning on requesting an image, whether it gets put in a lead hook or not, but I'm not sure if there is a place on Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Commons to request pictures. SL93 (talk) 17:01, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
 * If the Gebhard book (Oxford Univ. Press) says the hall was built by GAR, that's plenty good enough for me. If you add a citation to Gebhard with a statement that it was built by GAR, the hook could be restored to its original form. (Prior citation was to Cedar which simply said it was sponsored by GAR.)  Cbl62 (talk) 17:07, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Alright. The quote is "This war memorial building was constructed by the GAR to honor those who participated in the Civil War". SL93 (talk) 17:09, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg That works. I've restored the hook to "built". Cbl62 (talk) 17:13, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Interesting. I looked around the CedarNet website and found that the Board of Directors received the information from the Cedar Falls Historical Society. I guess it is just a matter of which source is considered best. SL93 (talk) 17:20, 20 July 2013 (UTC)