Talk:Old South Meeting House
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 | Old South Meeting House is currently an Art and architecture good article nominee. Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 14:39, 2 June 2026 (UTC) This article is ready to be reviewed in accordance with the good article criteria. Any editor who has not nominated or contributed significantly to this article may review the article and decide if it should be listed as a good article. To start the review process, click start review and then save the page. See the instructions. |
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 | A fact from Old South Meeting House appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 April 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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What does this mean? Is it true?
"The Old South Meeting House is claimed to be the second oldest establishment existent in the United States."
It is not even the second oldest church in Massachusetts -- see
. . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 12:48, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Great fire
Did you know nomination
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:51, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
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Old South Meeting House
- ... that during the American Revolutionary War, British troops turned Boston's Old South Meeting House (pictured) into a horse-riding facility? Source: The Old South Meeting House; Boston Landmarks Commission Study Report (PDF) (Report). Boston Landmarks Commission. May 20, 2025. p. 5
- ALT1: ... that the Old South Meeting House (pictured), where the Boston Tea Party was organized, later served as a horse-riding facility and a post office? Source: Andros, Howard S. (2001). Buildings and Landmarks of Old Boston: A Guide to the Colonial, Provincial, Federal, and Greek Revival Periods, 1630–1850. pp. 66-67; The Old South Meeting House; Boston Landmarks Commission Study Report (PDF) (Report). Boston Landmarks Commission. May 20, 2025. p. 5
- ALT2: ... that the Old South Meeting House (pictured), where the Boston Tea Party was organized, was later sold for $1,350 and nearly demolished? Source: Holleran, Michael (1998). Boston's "Changeful Times": Origins of Preservation & Planning in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 99
- ALT3: ... that while preservationists obtained the Old South Meeting House (pictured) for just $3,500, the land underneath cost over 100 times as much? Source: The Old South Meeting House; Boston Landmarks Commission Study Report (PDF) (Report). Boston Landmarks Commission. May 20, 2025. p. 22 The land cost $400,000 per Freedom and the Old South meeting-house. Boston: Directors of the Old South work. 1910. p. 26
- ALT4: ... that the Old South Meeting House (pictured), where the Boston Tea Party was organized, later had a bookstore in the basement? Source: Goodspeed, Charles Eliot (1937). Yankee Bookseller. Houghton Mifflin. p. 27.
- Reviewed: Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, St. George's Anglican Church (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
- Comment: I can suggest more hooks if necessary.
5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 780 past nominations.
Epicgenius (talk) 15:31, 10 March 2026 (UTC).
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QPQ: 
- User has 2 outstanding QPQs.
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Good nomination overall, just need to sort out your outstanding QPSs. I find the first hook most interesting, the ALT's are less so. Thanks, Lflin16 - :) (talk) 00:54, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Lflin16: Thanks for the review. I already did the QPQs at Template:Did you know nominations/Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, though; that was a nomination of two articles, so it can be applied toward two QPQ credits. Epicgenius (talk) 01:18, 11 March 2026 (UTC)
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Thanks for the clarification. Lflin16 - :) (talk)
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