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A fact from Villa Tammekann appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the bank initially refused to provide a mortgage for the 1932 Alvar Aalto–designed house Villa Tammekann in Tartu until its flat roof was replaced by a pitched one?
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 20:40, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
... that the bank initially refused to provide a mortgage for the Alvar Aalto-designed 1932 house, Villa Tammekann (in Tartu), until its flat roof was replaced by a pitched one? Source: "Especially the flat roof proved problematic: despite two attempts to construct it, the roof could not be made fully waterproof, and Mrs Tammekann refused to set foot in the house and is known to have protested heavily to Aalto. For a time, the bank even set a pitched roof as a condition of the mortgage." https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000003874258.html (in Finnish)
Created by DoubleGrazing (talk). Self-nominated at 10:42, 26 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]
Epicgenius (talk) 03:02, 27 February 2021 (UTC)