Talk:Isaac L. Rice Mansion/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: Epicgenius (talk · contribs) 14:51, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: ZKang123 (talk · contribs) 07:03, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Will pick up this review in due time.--ZKang123 (talk) 07:03, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Sourcing and spot checks

• Earwig highlights some phrases which are place names and so on. Though there's one of main concern:
  • Source says: "the house was completed in 1903. Isaac Rice called it Villa Julia, after his wife." which is too similar to: "When the house was completed in 1903, Rice called it "Villa Julia" after his wife."

A detailed source spot check would follow.

Images

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Copy changes

Lead

• is a mansion at 346 West 89th Street and Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. – This part is a bit wordy. I suggest is a mansion on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. then move the part about its exact location somewhere else, like in another sentence.
• yeshiva, or Jewish school, – I think it's not needed to explain what a yeshiva is here given you wikilinked it
• The facade is made of brick and marble and is four stories high, with an attic and basement – The brick and marble facade is four stories high with an attic and basement.
• was intentionally designed – remove "intentionally"
• Although various subsequent tenants – remove "various"
• hired Herts and Tallant to design a house there – hired Herts and Tallant as the house's architects
• The Rice family decided to move to the Ansonia Hotel in 1907 and sold it to the tobacconist Solomon Schinasi, whose family modified the house in 1908, 1912, and 1927. – When the Rice family moved to the Ansonia Hotel in 1907, they sold it to the tobacconist Solomon Schinasi...
• There has been architectural commentary of the house over the years. – positive or negative?

More to come.--ZKang123 (talk) 04:48, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for taking up the review. I've addressed all of the above so far. – Epicgenius (talk) 22:59, 9 July 2024 (UTC)