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Gov. Arthur J. Weaver House

house in Falls City, Nebraska

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ65068941 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Gov. Arthur J. Weaver House is a historic house in Falls City, Nebraska. It was built in 1920 for Arthur J. Weaver, who served as the 22nd governor of Nebraska from 1929 to 1931. It was designed in the Queen Anne and Stick/eastlake architectural styles. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 27, 2005.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gov. Arthur J. Weaver House” is house in Falls City, Nebraska. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Arthur, Weaver and House, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 1929, 1931, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Arthur, Weaver and House is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “house in Falls City, Nebraska” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65068941. The first chronological checks are 1920, 1929, 1931 and 2005.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Gov. Arthur J. Weaver House”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Gov. Arthur J. Weaver House primary sources, Gov. Arthur J. Weaver House archive and Arthur research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Gov. Arthur J. Weaver House”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Gov. Arthur J. Weaver House” 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.