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Washington School (Ossining, New York)

 * ... that since being closed in 1973 for desgregation, Washington School (pictured) in Ossining, New York, has been used as offices and a church?
 * Reviewed: A. F. James MacArthur

5x expanded by Daniel Case (talk). Self nom at 19:58, 11 January 2013 (UTC)





First, the good:
 * Age good - well over a 5X expansion done the day it was nominated
 * Length good
 * Neutrality, sources, copyright all check out
 * Qpq good
 * Image free and shows up well at low resolution
 * Hook length ok.

Now, the question. The hook is, well, uninteresting. Particularly when there's something in the article about the school getting shut down because of racial tensions causing riots that spilled out into the business district. Now that'd be a hook. Are you sure you don't want to go with something about that? Norstrem (talk) 00:15, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The riots occurred not at Washington but at the high school, which is right next to downtown. So, no, it won't work. Daniel Case (talk) 01:11, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The article clearly states that Washington was shut down as a remedy for the city's juvenile race riots: "Since the five elementary schools fed into a single middle and high school, racial tensions sometimes flared into riots that spilled off school grounds into the village's downtown business district. To remedy that, the school board voted to close Washington..." Even if Washington's closure is only tangentially related to the riots, tangential relationship to violence during the Civil Rights Movement certainly has to have more hook potential than use as an office building. Norstrem (talk) 22:27, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * If you want to phrase it that way, go ahead, but I'm not as comfortable with the causality asserted by that statement (And frankly, it's rather unusual to me for a school to become a church through adaptive reuse. Office space, commonly, but not a church). Daniel Case (talk) 20:54, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg I'll ok the hook if you're uncomfortable with that causality, but in that case perhaps the article should be rephrased to express less causality to begin with. Norstrem (talk) 05:07, 26 January 2013 (UTC)