Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in Illinois

This is a great list for folks looking for something to do (or write about). Would it be OK if I added small photos from existing articles to the appropriate sections in order to color things up a bit? I'd do so on the right-side and without breaking up the flow of the existing list. Thoughts? Rklawton 21:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm sure the photos will be fine, but don't add ones from New York City or Minneapolis to the Champaign county section. I assume there are many Stone Arch Bridges, but the one in Champaign doesn't cross the Mississippi River. --Dual Freq 11:10, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Ha! Yeah, I caught a few of those, but that one slipped past. Thanks for catching it for me. Rklawton 13:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation

While reviewing this list historic places in search of suitable illustrations, I've found a few dozen links that don't relate directly to the referenced historic place. When I've found these links, I've gone ahead and changed the link to make it location-specific. It's my impression that each of these places deserves its own article. On a side note, it might be nice at some point to include information from the place's original application. At any rate, this is the reason for all the link changes. It doesn't make sense to have a link to an Illinois historic site take a visitor to an article about a site in a different state or country. Rklawton 03:18, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ --Dual Freq 11:10, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

That's not exactly the original application, but it's better than nothing. I'd still like the application if it's available. On a related note, would it make sense to provide county-specific links under each county heading - in order to make finding this information easier? See the first listing (Adams County) for an example. I also added this link to the Adams County, Illinois article under external links. Thoughts? Rklawton 08:54, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

City, State articles

Should we make an effort to list these sites in the appropritae city, state articles, too? It should be a snap for the short city articles. It'll require more care and attention with the larger ones. By doing this, we may even find sites that already have articles (I already found one tonight). Thoughts? Rklawton 07:05, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I've completed Adams county as per my proposal above. I did this to solicit comment by way of example. Note that Quincy is a pretty big city. It has a separate article for historic locations, and that's were I put the national registry information. I did what I could to merge with existing information, but I had to leave a note on the Talk page requesting help with Quincy's historic districts - they have several and I didn't know which went where. Rklawton 20:47, 19 May 2006 (UTC)