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Did you know... that the Scandinavian-influenced pair-house shows that some level of ethnic diversity was accepted in early Mormon society?

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Pair house architecture

Hey, I wonder if you could create Pair house or Pair house architecture, to cover the Scandinavian style created in (or brought to?) Utah by Danes who converted to Mormonism and immigrated. From a Danish style cottage? And develop a DYK? This source covers topic with respect to 16 of them. I saw another source mentioning 61 (i think) of them. If there are that few, they can all be listed in the article. There probably are pics already of some of them, and/or i could make a trip. --Doncram (talk) 21:03, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Doncram, I'm on vacation for a week so not doing much editing. Will look into it when I return. MB 04:09, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, whenever. For the record,

~~Rasmus Jensen House,~~ (duplicated below)
Hans Ottesen House,
Christen Larsen House,
Peter Axel Johnson House: "The Peter Axel Johnson house, constructed c. 1876, is one of 56 examples of the Scandinavian "pair house" type that have been recorded in Utah."

are the four articles currently hit by searching on "pair house" phrase (probably all created by me). Numerous others which are neighbors / in same county-list-articles, could be created as articles by me in the near future, especially if I had a work-list going and/or a DYK support goal. --Doncram (talk) 03:13, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, the list of 16, most in Ephraim, Utah or nearby, is:

1) Anders Hintze House, c. 1862-63. This has a two-deep plan, and a plan drawing was exhibited in 2001 by the Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Horn, Iowa, which termed it a "three-part house", which may be another search term. Presumably Danes who converted to the Church of Latter-day Saints immigrated to Utah, but Danes who came to Iowa or elsewhere in the midwest would also have brought their architecture there, and it may be called "three-part" I guess. --Doncram (talk) 16:55, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
2) Thuesen-Petersen House, c. 1868
3) Soren Simonsen House, c. 1880
4) Martin Johnson House, c. 1880
5) Peter Hansen House (Manti, Utah), c. 1875 '
6) Claus P. Andersen House, c. 1865
7) Andrew Petersen House, c. 1870-1875 Not ever NRHP-listed. This property was nominated, with reference number 82005113, but was not listed due to owner objection. (NRIS has info: Location: 92 E. Two Hundred S., Richfield, Utah; Year of construction: 1875 (or c.1875?); record date: October 20, 1982. )
8) Jens C. Nielsen House, c. 1870 (maybe not ever NRHP-listed?)
9) Hans C. Jensen House, c. 1870
10) Rasmus Jensen House, c. 1870
11) Oluf Larsen House, c. 1869-1870
12) Lars S. Andersen House, c. 1865
13) Dykes Sorensen House, c. 1870
14) Andrew M. Barentsen House, 1872
15) Jacobsen-Jensen House (maybe not ever NRHP-listed?)
16) Niels Mortensen House (maybe not ever NRHP-listed?)

The Utah State Historical Society document for one house (maybe within the 16 above, or maybe not) gives update that there were 16 in the original list but 8 more were identified later. --Doncram (talk) 23:43, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

also there are Peter Honson House(?) and the Jens Jensen House listed as part of the Spring City Historic District in Sanpete County

a HABS photo exists for Peter Hons House, here "Spring City Area Study, Peter Hons House, Fourth & F Streets, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT".
Jens Severine Jensen House, description and photo, 276 North 300 East.

And Fredrick C. Sorensen House, separately listed, before the above:
"folk/vernacular three-room or "pair house" type. This distinctive one-room deep, three-room wide plan is derived from Scandinavian folk tradition and is an interesting aspect of Ephraim's cultural landscape. The Sorensen house is exceptionally long - about 42 f - and is composed of a central square room flanked by smaller rooms to both sides. These two flanking rooms, the "pair" found to the sides of the center room, lend the house type its name. The "pair house" (in Swedish, Parstuga; in Danish, Tvillinghuser) is encountered frequently in Ephraim and other Sanpete towns which had large Scandinavian populations."

What is the difference between "parstuga" / "Pair house" of Scandinavian heritage vs. Central-passage house (see also Hall and parlor house) of English/British heritage? Not clear to me. --Doncram (talk) 03:26, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is a plan for the Anders Hintze House in its NRHP document which might be used as an illustration, and/or there are other plan examples. There are pics for some including Anders Hintze House taken by Utah NRHP editor/photographer User:Ntsimp, whom I have invited to chime in here, too. Maybe they could take new pics or pull out the most relevant pics, if we figure out what features need to be highlighted in an article about the style. "Parstuga" would be catchier than "pair house" for an article title, IMHO. --Doncram (talk) 01:43, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, i am not finding other usage of "three-part" that way. Perhaps the museum staff was just trying to put it into understandable terms, and did not know that "pair-house architecture" is a thing, since there was no convenient Wikipedia article on the topic yet. :) --Doncram (talk) 17:38, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I put Category:Pair-houses on all the articles created, 14 so far. Not sure if it should be "pair house" without hyphen or "pair-house" in all usage. --Doncram (talk) 23:43, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[EC] Sorry for how ridiculously many edits this is, I shoulda started a Draft article perhaps, but I hope you will yet be interested. Done for now. --Doncram (talk) 03:46, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Doncram, no problem. I found a few sources, but it looks like this will be similar to Prow house where there really isn't that much written on the subject. I did see that "Parstuga" is different - the central room is narrow and used just for entry/cooking while in the pair house, the central room is large and is the main room of the house. MB 04:16, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

sources

Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning

From the Outside Looking In: Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture

Touring Swedish America

Carter, Thomas 1986 Danes. In America;s Architectural Roots.

Carter, Thomas Robert, and Elizabeth Manion. “A Computerized System for Artifact Site Mapping: The Distribution of the Scandinavian Pair house in the Rocky Mountain West.” Revue Roumaine D’Histoire de L’art. Serie Beaux-Arts 25 (1988): 11–20. [Architecture,Fieldwork,Scandinavians]

Ethnic Landscapes of America

Carter and Goss, Utah's Historic Architecture

other

Doncram,

1. the source I was following (now in the draft) clearly says Frederick, but the NRHP nom uses Fredrick. I'll keep an eye out in other sources to see which is most common.

Okay, that's fine. However it is to be called here, and however it is called at its article, don't matter much to me; there just should be a proper link to the article! --Doncram (talk) 01:57, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2. my style with new articles is to create in my user space and save every paragraph or so with a edit summary of SAVE just to keep from loosing anything. then i just do a cut/paste into the real article since there is no edit history worth preserving. so if I use my normal method and you do any edits here you won't get attribution. OK? (but you will increase your edit count) MB 23:11, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, that's fine, thanks. Your method makes sense for creating DYK articles. --Doncram (talk) 01:57, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Doncram, as far as the collection The Scandinavian-American Pair-house in Utah, i just found it is refnum 64000873 and the houses are spread across five counties (i think). Here is a different version of the nomination with handwritten changes [1] where the title is changed to "Scandinavian-American Pair-house Thematic Group" and what looks like five different county names. Where is this in our lists? I've never seen one crossing so many counties, so it probably should be a special case listed on the Utah state list. I assume my article should cover the overall architectural style and this listing since there is so much overlap. Comments? MB 04:10, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See my comment at User talk:MB#Other architectural topics covered in MPS / TR documents, about MPS documents often having a state-wide scope. About this one, I think I was incorrect in my first impression that the pair-houses were mostly located around Ephraim in Sanpete County. Clearly they are spread out more widely, and Eprhaim/Sanpete should be de-emphasized. Because the MPS document has a state-limited scope, it only suggests Utah examples. But Mormons settled in Idaho and other neighboring states, and presumably some Scandinavian immigrants brought pair-house-type designs there too, just we won't as conveniently know about them. The topic should be pair-houses, not limited to one county or just to Utah, either. --Doncram (talk) 18:26, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Doncram, I have found mention of these houses in AZ, ID, SD also. I tried to cover all angles (origin in Europe, the cluster in Utah, elsewhere). I also put in a NRHP infobox for the "thematic group" - even thought this may not be a "listing", there is a ref number that is a convenient way to get to the supporting "nomination form" (which implies it is a listing at least in one sense).

I think I am about ready to move it to mainspace. I filled out more gaps in the list. If you were creating articles for each one, you missed Jens Nielsen House (it's in the Sanpete county list). take a look and let me know if you think it needs any changes. MB 22:40, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It is looking pretty good! Thanks, i was previously looking for "Jens C. Nielsen House", now found its NRIS info now as "Jens Nielsen", and created a stub article. About the Type I, Type IVa etc. section in the list, whose system is that? Does the MPS document kind of suggest that this typography was created in that study (I suspect so), in which case that should be mentioned in an intro to the section on types. My 2 cents, anyhow. Again, looking good. I want there to be a redirect created from List of pair-houses or List of pair houses to the list-section in the article, after it goes to mainspace. --Doncram (talk) 22:59, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Doncram, OK pair-house now live. It looks like all the right links have turned blue. You can redirect to the list now. Will work on the DYK nom next. Will list you as co-author since you helped on the initial research, unless you object for some reason. MB 00:04, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]