Watts Towers

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Watts Towers
Carol M. Highsmith · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Watts Towers

Summary

Watts Towers is a visionary environment[1]. It draws 574 Wikipedia views per month (visionary_environment category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Watts Towers is the creator of Simon Rodia[3].
  • Watts Towers is located in Los Angeles[4].
  • Watts Towers is in the country of United States[5].
  • Watts Towers's image is recorded as Highsmithwattstowers.jpg[6].
  • Watts Towers's instance of is recorded as visionary environment[7].
  • Watts Towers's instance of is recorded as tower[8].
  • Watts Towers's architect is recorded as Simon Rodia[9].
  • Watts is named after Watts Towers[10].
  • Watts Towers's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 244732869[11].
  • Watts Towers's GND ID is recorded as 4546741-9[12].
  • Watts Towers's location is recorded as Watts[13].
  • Watts Towers's Commons category is recorded as Watts Towers[14].
  • Watts Towers's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 9320963[15].
  • Watts Towers's Structurae structure ID is recorded as 20001500[16].
  • Watts Towers's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 33.938739, 'lon': -118.241047}[17].
  • Watts Towers's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/024xyd[18].
  • Watts Towers's NRHP reference number is recorded as 77000297[19].
  • Watts Towers's official website is recorded as http://www.wattstowers.org/[20].
  • Watts Towers's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Watts-Towers[21].
  • Watts Towers's heritage designation is recorded as National Historic Landmark[22].
  • Watts Towers's heritage designation is recorded as National Register of Historic Places listed place[23].
  • Watts Towers's heritage designation is recorded as California Historical Landmark[24].
  • Watts Towers's heritage designation is recorded as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument[25].
  • Watts Towers's GeoNames ID is recorded as 5407567[26].
  • Watts Towers's Quora topic ID is recorded as Watts-Towers[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Watts Towers is the creator of Simon Rodia[3]. Things named for it include 103rd Street/it[28], a tram stop[29], in United States[30], founded in 1990[31].

Why It Matters

Watts Towers draws 574 Wikipedia views per month (visionary_environment category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for it include 103rd Street/it[28], a tram stop[29], in United States[30], founded in 1990[31].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . National Register of Historic Places. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Quora. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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