Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Naseef House


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The result was keep.  Per the closure of Articles for deletion/Nassef House. NAC for cleanup. Tim Song (talk) 02:34, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Naseef House

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--Simfan34 (talk) 16:20, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - The house neither has any historical notability nor does it have a history of any particularly notable owners. King Abdulaziz might have spent some time there, but that does not make it notable. Is every house that Napoleon or George Washington stayed at notable. Neither is its architecture notable, despite what the article says, one picture shows many more buildings like it.


 * Keep - Chance has it I am just visiting Jeddah again and have been to the area of the Naseef house two days ago. Things have not changed much since my last visit. The Naseef house is by far the only example of this house type that is constantly held in good maintenance and can be accessed rather easily by visitors, which doesn't mean you can simply walk to the front door and enter but rather most of the time you have to find somebody official who has the authority to show you the house and this person may quite often not be found anywhere near the house. On the picture you link to the Naseef house is right behind the structure with the wooden green parts, the Noorwally house. The Noorwally house itself is another quite different example of a fine Jeddah house. It was repaired sometime around 1986 and since has been left to decay, the beautiful wooden green decorative parts disintegrating and threatening to fall on the pedestrians below. The Naseef house is the closest Jeddah gets to a well preserved privat house (at least the lower floors are in a good state) and the only one of its kind turned into a public museum. It was special when built being the residence of the governor (it boasted the only tree in all of Jeddah! At that time an immense sign of wealth showing the owner could afford providing water for a tree where trees normally were not able to grow). It became more notable when the founder of Saudi Arabia used it as his Jeddah residence until his newly built Khuzam Palace was finished, this being probably the only reason why it has been preserved this good at all. Of course Jeddah has not much influenced the architecture of Europe, North America or the Far East but the Naseef house might well be the only well preserved example of a building style found in the Hejaz and on the Sudanese side of the Red Sea with major clusters in Taif, Mecca, Jeddah, Al Wedj, Medina and Suakin in Sudan. --T.woelk (talk) 22:27, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

This page (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Naseef House) should be merged with Articles for deletion/Nassef House to something like "Articles for deletion/Nasseef House" (note the spelling) --T.woelk (talk) 22:25, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.