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Revision as of 15:03, 27 January 2012 by imported>Orlady (comment)
First Congregational Church of Litchfield
- ... that Henry Ward Beecher said the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, (pictured), said to be the most photographed church in New England, had "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"?
- Reviewed: Lorella De Luca
Created/expanded by Orlady (talk). Self nom at 01:28, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Length, history and reference verified, even after I fed the hook some irony pills (Full disclosure: I took the picture, although I had no idea it would be used for this article). Hopefully this makes the character count.
We could stand to make some further improvements. How about at least writing a proper intro? And using {{infobox religious building}} so we could really show off the picture. But it could go out rough-edged as is. Daniel Case (talk) 06:41, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the review (and for providing the photo to go with the article). That hook is 210 characters (with spaces -- I believe we count spaces here; or am I remembering wrong?), which is about the same length as the hook I first drafted. I'm also a bit bothered by the two occurrences of "said." For the record, my original hook was: ... that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield (pictured) in Connecticut, now regarded as an iconic New England church, was replaced in the 1870s after it was said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"? By the time I posted the nomination, I had trimmed my hook back to: ... that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield (pictured), now regarded as iconic, was replaced in 1873 after being said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"? --Orlady (talk) 15:03, 27 January 2012 (UTC)