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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 21:08, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Johnson Wax Headquarters

... that the columns in the Johnson Wax Headquarters Administration Building have been compared to lily pads, golf tees, and ice cream cones? Source: SC Johnson HQ: Exterior and Interior". PBS.; Evjue, William J. (March 17, 1962). "Businessmen Who Wanted Top Work Turned to Wright". The Capital Times. pp. 1, 8; "Lloyd Wright Tests Column". Kenosha News. Associated Press. June 5, 1937. p. 2.
- ALT1: ... that the interior of the Johnson Wax Headquarters Administration Building was once compared to "a woman swimming naked in a stream"? Source: "New Frank Lloyd Wright Office Building Shows Shape of Things to Come". Life. Time Inc. May 8, 1939. p. 15.
- ALT2: ... that the Johnson Wax Headquarters Research Tower had no fire sprinklers because its architect disliked their appearance? Source: Lipman, Jonathan (1986). Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Buildings. Mineola, NY: Courier Corporation. p. 164.
- ALT3: ... that combustible items were banned from the Johnson Wax Headquarters Research Tower, which had no fire sprinklers because its architect disliked their appearance? Source: Lipman, Jonathan (1986). Frank Lloyd Wright and the Johnson Wax Buildings. Mineola, NY: Courier Corporation. p. 164.
- ALT4: ... that Frank Lloyd Wright designed a four-legged chair for the Johnson Wax Headquarters after people kept falling off a three-legged chair he designed? Source: Tenuta, Marci Laehr (October 22, 2001). "Organic and in demand". The Journal Times. p. 53.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/List of Mingxing films
- Comment: I can suggest more hooks later if desired.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 693 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 01:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 22:12, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

Passed. Hog Farm _Talk 00:46, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Johnson Wax Headquarters/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Epicgenius (talk · contribs) 18:15, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 21:33, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to get to this over the next week. Hog Farm _Talk 21:33, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for the delay - I expect to be able to start tomorrow. Hog Farm _Talk 02:58, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there! I started a few source checks for this one but I didn't finish. In case it's helpful, I can share what I had so far. Pencilsforall (talk) 00:56, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the thought but I really prefer to do these myself as I conduct the review. Hog Farm _Talk 03:02, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here was a random selection of 30 sources (~10%) and the status of the check.

Number	Text	SourceCheck	Notes
42	Wright's plans for the Johnson Administration Building were based on his earlier, unbuilt design for the Capital Journal offices in Salem, Oregon,	tbd	McCarter, 1997 https://archive.org/details/franklloydwright0000lipm/page/16/mode/2up
77	As such, Wright decided to build one prototype column and place progressively heavier loads onto it.	tbd	McCarter 1997, p
61	while another apprentice, Edgar Tafel, took Mosher's place in Pennsylvania.	tbd	https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fallingwater_Rising/cDB1c4EF9UsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=johnson%20tafel
139	During the early 2010s, S. C. Johnson renovated the tower as part of a $30 million refurbishment project,	tbd
283	Eight of the other ten buildings were designated as a World Heritage Site in 2019 under the name "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright"	tbd
212	The room is arranged in an open plan,	tbd	wayback?
193	Wright decided to put all clerical staff in the great workroom, which is variously cited as measuring 128 by 208 feet (39 by 63 m)or 130 by 210 feet (40 by 64 m).	tbd
7	The two original buildings are among five that the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed around Racine, the others being Wingspread, the Keland House, and the Hardy House.	good
10	Designed by Lippincott & Margulies as a 1964 New York World's Fair pavilion,the theater has a saucer-shaped, gold-colored roof supported by six concrete columns.	good
57	and a fourth leg was later added to most of the three-legged chairs.	good
86	disagreements emerged over who should install the glass tubes.	good	two sources in one?
151	S. C. Johnson announced in 1959 that it would expand the headquarters' R&D department.	good
155	two pavilion structures, also designed by Taliesin Associated Architects, were built next to it.	good	first link not correct
172	The director of the company's guest relations department claimed that the Johnson Administration Building was one of a few Wright–designed structures that was still being used for its original purpose.	good
213	The Administration Building's workroom has been cited as an early example of an open-plan office.	good
221	he columns are cited as measuring 21 feet (6.4 m), 21 feet 7+1⁄2 inches (6.591 m), or 22 feet (6.7 m) tall.	good
260	American architects deemed the Johnson Wax Headquarters one of "seven wonders of American architecture" in a 1958 survey.	good
261	The Administration Building and Research Tower received the Twenty-five Year Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1974, in honor of the buildings' "design of enduring significance".	good
280	the structures became Racine city landmarks in August 1975.	good
43	which included a series of mushroom–shaped columns and translucent walls.	good	lipman; p. 10
103	Wright decided to put all clerical staff in the great workroom,	good	lipman; p.93
201	manufactured by Corning Glass in New York.	good	Lipman; p 65
114	Wright's initial plans for the research building called for a 18-story tower, with a hollow core in a fashion similar to Buckminster Fuller's 4D Apartment Tower and Dymaxion houses.	good	Lipman p; 125, 127
126	Wright had estimated in 1944 that the building would cost $750,000,	good	Lipman; p. 142
204	which are placed on aluminum racks and bound using wires.	tbd	Lipman; p283–284 wrong page number?
190	The Johnson Administration Building was one of three major buildings that Frank Lloyd Wright designed in the 1930s; the other two were Fallingwater in Stewart Township, Pennsylvania, and Herbert Jacobs's first house in Madison, Wisconsin.	tbd
56	Several diameters of tubes are used.	tbd	Software
32	Wright, who had designed just two buildings in the previous half-decade,	tbd	proquest
200	By the 21st century, heating was provided by ventilation ducts, while the original heating pipes were used as telecommunications conduits.	tbd	proquest
288	The Milwaukee Art Museum displayed schematics and models of the buildings in 1990	tbd	proquest

"The initial drawings lacked windows, though a revised blueprint from 1936 did include windows" - I don't think this is quite right. The source reads {{xt|The 1935 Matson plans seem to show a building with few or no windows" which leaves this open a bit and very much allows for a building that doesn't entirely lack windows
There's a few references to "Fortaleza Hall and The Commons" as a single thing, but it's never elaborated what "The Commons" is

I did sporadic spot-checking throughought the entire article and just had the one issue with the windows above. Source reliability looks OK; and image licensing is good enough for GA. This article is in excellent shape. Hog Farm _Talk 00:18, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review @Hog Farm.

I have reworded that sentence to address your first point.
I have clarified what the Commons is, and added a reference.

– Epicgenius (talk) 00:29, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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