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21 Ranchhouse

United States historic place

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ42377626 ↗
Source-derived summary

21 Ranchhouse, located at 7570 Waha Road near Lewiston in Nez Perce County, Idaho, is a Queen Anne-style house built in 1886. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

It is a 3-story house with a wraparound shed-roofed porch. A gambrel roofed frame barn built in 1921 is to the north.

The house is prominent, visible from several miles away, and is a local landmark.

Editorial summary

“21 Ranchhouse” enters the record as united States historic place. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ranchhouse, United and States can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886, 1978, 1921—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ranchhouse, United and States.
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Why this record matters

“21 Ranchhouse” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ranchhouse, United and States provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q42377626. Authority coordinates are 46.224, -116.858. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1886, 1978 and 1921.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “21 Ranchhouse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.