I am resubmitting a nomination for this building but I’m not sure why it was rejected before. Originally, I just put that hanging sign, but I figured since you couldn’t touch it that might have been the reason. So I used the window sign instead for resubmission. Could anyone give any suggestion? Do you think that it will be accepted the second time round?
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I am actually not sure about the history so much about the building, but it really does stick out in the neighborhood and it’s is one of very few local own businesses left in downtown San Jose. But here is some reference photos since to me does visually stick out in the neighborhood.
It’s also one of the safer roads to take when I am coming from the part of downtown with a lot of the restaurants and food to the postbox that I’ll drop my mail off at
I think you need to focus your nomination. A dental office does not meet the criteria of a great place of exercise, exploration, or being social. The tooth sign is not art I would take a friend to see. However, your supporting statement is interesting. You could try submitting the entire building as historical architecture if you have links to back up those statements.
Yeah, nothing about this meets criteria. If the building is actually unique or historic, you need to submit it for that and forget about the dental business. But you will need evidence that it is historic and not just old. Old has no particular value. Historic means there is something significant about it.
I am actually not sure about the history so much about the building, but it really does stick out in the neighborhood and it’s is one of very few local own businesses left in downtown San Jose. But here is some reference photos since to me does visually stick out in the neighborhood.
It’s also one of the safer roads to take when I am coming from the part of downtown with a lot of the restaurants and food to the postbox that I’ll drop my mail off at
This might be hard to hear, but how convenient this is for you to interact with doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of Wayfarer.
If you really think this is some kind of soecial building, youre going to have to do some research.
Go inside and ask if anyone knows the age of the building or it’s story.
Go to city hall or the city planner’s office to see what they know about it.
Go to a library nearby to see what resources they have on local history. They may have maps that discuss when the building was built, who owned it, if there was an architect.
To be honest, while it is a pretty building, it does not look like anything special to me. I have a degree in building construction. I also watched a show where a guy in California went around restoring homes from this era. It doesn’t look original to me (but i could be wrong).
So I checked and it is marked as a historical building (structure of merit & contributing structure) but I can’t really find what the context is. It was built in the 1890s and classified as a Queen Anne. I’m not really sure what to do with that information though. Do you have any suggestions? Is that significant?
Yes. If it has some kind of designation, that is good. Weird. It has some Queen Anne features, but also looks like it’s been changed.
Start with the library. Tell them there’s a Queen Anne building at the corner of X and X that you’d like to learn more about and see where they send you.
They may be a le to help you find newspaper articles about it getting that designation.
But I don’t know if that would be enough to sway me as a reviewer. That proves that it is old but it doesn’t prove that it is important. To be important, it should be a great example of Queen Anne style architecture.
It has wooden siding. There are a few corbels under the eaves. There’s one octagon window. There’s a bay window on one corner in the back and a box bay on the other on the second floor. Those all meet the Queen Anne style. But it’s missing a lot of other features that I’d expect to see, like trim work and other types of siding details. Plus the entry is just so nothingburger (how’s that for an official term?). I would be shocked if that buried corner is the original entrance to the building. Also, the roofline is waaaay too simple to be a good example of a Queen Anne.
Nothingburger sounds very reasonable as a technical term!
I know literally nothing about architecture but when you were wondering about the entrance, did you mean something like this? That door on the corner isn’t technically isn’t the entrance I think this is.
OK, this view makes a lot more sense. It never occurred to me to look at the “back” of the house for the front. This is much more consistent with Queen Anne, though there are still a lot better examples in California. It’s still really, really plain for a Queen Anne.
I did some of this for recent submissions over here and it can take you in multiple directions but can also be very interesting. 1st thing I checked was the actual address. The garnered some leads as to which directions to look into, then I checked to see what status the nominations had, regular, listed, protected. That pointed me in the direction of the bodies that hold lists of these properties and from there it also gave me some understanding of the history which I was then able to follow up through people mentioned in those articles and listing.
Just please keep in mind when making the submission to make it in YOUR OWN words. Do not copy and paste sections of these articles or it will easily be picked up.
Get the history clear in your head and tell it in your own words.
It does take time but you will learn a lot.
Best of luck with if if you intend to follow through with it and if you do, let us know how it goes.
Welcome @Mommietiger
How people may or may not use a specific place in a game is not the key as to why something is eligible.
Although the impression you are given when you submit something is that you are submitting to be a pokestop the reality is that you are submitting something to be a wayspot and for it to be accepted into the Lightship database - this holds all approved wayspots and is separate from all Niantic games.
Games such as Pokémon Go, then have their own rules about what to select from that database.
In order to be accepted it needs to meet the wayfarer criteria of being a great place to exercise or explore or socialise. A dentist does not meet any of those.
Sorry if I misunderstood your comment. I didn’t realise you were simply agreeing that because the building had an interesting history it could be acceptable.
