Template:Did you know nominations/Niagara Apothecary

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:59, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Niagara Apothecary[edit]

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Façade of the building

... that the restoration of the Niagara Apothecary (pictured) has been described as "the most authentic restoration of its kind in Canada and perhaps in North America"? Source: "As interesting as each of these institutions across Canada is in its own right, it is no chauvinistic exaggeration to point to the Niagara Apothecary at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, as the most authentic restoration of its kind in Canada and perhaps in North America." (from A professional keeping shop: The nineteenth-century apothecary by Ernst Stieb)

Restored shelves with original bottles

ALT1:... that the restoration of the Niagara Apothecary (interior pictured) has been referred to as "one of the early and great triumphs of heritage preservation in the province of Ontario"? Source: A drugstore in Niagara-on-the-Lake that dates back to the 1860s, it was saved in the 1960s,then restored and reopened as a museum at the beginning of the 1970s. Its restoration has been called "one of the early and great triumphs of heritage preservation in the province of Ontario". (from The Apotheosis of the Apothecary: Retailing and consuming the meaning of a historic site by Paul Litt, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.)

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Moved to mainspace by Mindmatrix (talk). Self-nominated at 17:09, 1 October 2017 (UTC).

Substantial article on plenty of good sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. The image is licensed, and a good illustration. I added (pictured). The shelves image might work even better in small size. - I have mixed feelings about both quotes, because the praise is from long ago. How about precisely saying what needed to be restored? Or one specialty of that work? - Please fix refs 13, 17, 21, 23 that don't point to a citation. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:52, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Good catch on the citations. Source 13 was actually a typo, which I then copypasted several times; it no longer exists, as I've fixed 'Pitt' to 'Litt'. For the other three, I had forgotten to attach 'ref=harv' in the reference; these are all fixed now. I've linked the shelf image above. Given that everything was restored (facade, interior of building, all furnishings, and the majority of objects), "precisely saying what needed to be restored" would result in a very long and uninteresting hook. Choosing one item may be possible, but in my opinion there isn't enough in the text I wrote to make for a catchy hook. (Perhaps something about " Stokes referred to photographs from 1905 and later" or "Missing parts were made by obtaining similar material from another building", but these are common restoration techniques anyway.) Is it really a problem that the quotations are several decades old (the first from the 1980s, the other from the 1970s)? Mind matrix 12:44, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

ALT1 - with shelves image - slightly preferred. - Thank you. Catching the ref errors is a piece of cake with a tool you free to copy from here (a friend told me). The quotes are no problem for me, but I watched enough discussions on DYK about claims about the highest, largest etc. So if you please watch this all the time, in prep, queue and even on the Main page, ready to have to insert some clumsy "at the time" or "according to ...", you have my blessing ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:01, 4 October 2017 (UTC)