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Rehwinkel Hall

historic building in Winfield, Kansas, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ48849352 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rehwinkel Hall, originally known as the West Dormitory, was completed in 1916 as a three-story building with raised basement, facing south on the former St. John's College (Kansas) campus. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as West Dormitory-St. John's College in 1991.

Editorial summary

“Rehwinkel Hall” enters the record as historic building in Winfield, Kansas, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rehwinkel, Hall and historic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1916, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rehwinkel, Hall and historic.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Rehwinkel Hall” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rehwinkel, Hall and historic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48849352. The first chronological checks are 1916 and 1991.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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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 “Rehwinkel Hall”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rehwinkel Hall primary sources, Rehwinkel Hall archive and Rehwinkel 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 “Rehwinkel Hall”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Rehwinkel Hall” 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.