User:Ignoreenus/sandbox

This was a GSoW assignment that I did on 6/28/17. I tried to add a gallery to this page, but the photos provided on Wikimedia Commons were mostly of random houses in the historic district, and I couldn't give them meaningful captions with addresses. I aim for precision, and this didn't meet my standards. I decided to add a gallery to Wolf House page instead.

I found and downloaded a pdf from the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program http://www.arkansaspreservation.com/national-register-listings/fifth-avenue-historic-district. It's the "National Historic Registration of Places--Nomination," from 1980 when the district was created, and it has addresses and information on several of the houses there, including photos. Some of the houses are on the historic registry, some are "significant structures," and some are "buildings contributing to the character of the district by linking key elements."

There are three photos on Wikimedia under the same name as this page, one of which is the main photo on the target. None of the photos are identified, so I want to find out their names and add them. I can also add the Boone-Murphy House, which is in this district. It has its own Wikipedia page, and it's one of the other targets on the training spreadsheet.

The first house pictured (which is the main picture on target) has a two-story veranda and is quite plain, with undecorated columns and no turrets, gables, or chimneys. I couldn't find it on the pdf. The second picture is listed as 410 Oak on the pdf. It doesn't have a historic name. It's under “buildings contributing to the character of the district by linking key elements” and the description is as follows: (c. 1949) 1-story L shaped brick house, etc. It was privately owned by James Randolph at the time the document was prepared in 1980. The third picture is of a house that doesn't appear on the pdf either. I tried to find pictures of the two houses elsewhere. I also clicked on the links for Wikimedia maps, but it wasn't helpful.

I was considering just creating a gallery with the two pictures, plus the Boone-Murphy House, but I decided not to since I couldn't caption even those two. And most concerning, the main picture is a random, ugly house that probably shouldn't be on that page. I searched a bit more on Google Street View and found that it is next door to 410 Oak Street, which is on the list of houses pictured on the pdf. Its address might be 408 Oak Street.

I gave up and did the assignment on a different page.