User talk:A Texas Historian/Project Fillmore County

		Project Fillmore County
		This article is part of Project Fillmore County, a project created to bring all sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Fillmore County, Nebraska up to Good Article or Featured Article status. The project needs your help! If you wish to sign up and help, please do so here.

Photos and murals

I'll try to get to Fillmore County and photograph the last two NRHP sites (the Eberhardt farmstead and the Maple Grove site) in the next few weeks. Right now, it's cloudy and gloomy in Nebraska, so not ideal weather for photography.

If there are other photos that need to be taken in Fillmore County—for example, if there's a particular aspect of a building that needs to be illustrated—please leave a note at my talk page and I'll do my best to oblige. Note that I know far too little about architecture, so if we need a photo of the neo-Renaissance corbelled balustrades on a building, be sure to tell me what a neo-Renaissance corbelled balustrade looks like.

If nobody else plans to work on it, I'll take care of the article on the Geneva post office. There's a new book out about the Nebraska post-office murals, and I've just checked it out. I was planning to use it to write articles on the NRHP PO's; in view of this WikiProject, I'll move Geneva's to the head of the queue. I'm working on another article right now, but hope to have it launched within a day or so; once that's done, I can get to work on the Geneva PO. Ammodramus (talk) 01:34, 18 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Eberhardt farmstead

A Google Maps check suggests that the Eberhardt Farmstead buildings may no longer exist. The nom form, available at the NRHP Focus site, gives both UTM coords and township-range-section-quarter description; these agree, and land on a quarter-section occupied by nothing but a field where the Google satellite photo shows no evidence of buildings. The site isn't listed on the Nebraska State Historical Society's "Nebraska National Register Sites in Fillmore County" page; the NSHS often removes a site that's been demolished, even if it's still listed on the NRHP. A Wayback Machine check of the NSHS page indicates that the Eberhardt farmstead was on it as of Jan 4, 2001, but gone as of Feb 11, 2001, suggesting that it was intentionally removed in early 2001. Ammodramus (talk) 00:16, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I had no idea about this, thanks for informing me about it. I can still find the nomination form, so the article can still be written, but if the site no longer exists, then I'm going to need to spend a lot of time looking for any information about its destruction/demolition/something else? And of course, there's the issue of getting a picture of the site... I guess, if its possible, could you get a picture of where the buildings were formerly located? At least it would be illustrating the setting. - Awardgive. Help out with Project Fillmore County 04:15, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I discovered this while trying to plan a photographic expedition to the site. I'll still try to get photos of the field occupying that quarter-section, as documentation that the buildings are no longer there.

The Fillmore County zoning webpage suggests that a permit might have been required for demolition. I don't know if that'd be a matter of public record, and if it would've been published in the newspaper of record. If you could find this out, and could narrow down the date to within a few months or so, I might be able to find a library with the newspaper on microfilm and get a citation that way; I see, for instance, that the Fairmont library has the (Geneva) Nebraska Signal on microfilm up to 1998. Ammodramus (talk) 00:51, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Photos of the site, documenting the absence of buildings, are at Commons:Category:Eberhardt farmstead site (Fillmore County, Nebraska). Ammodramus (talk) 17:31, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nice. I've been trying to find something on the removing of the site. The pictures really help show the setting. - Awardgive. Help out with Project Fillmore County 18:26, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]