Talk:Excelsior Power Company Building

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A fact from Excelsior Power Company Building appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 October 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Excelsior Power Company Building, the oldest known surviving power plant in Manhattan, now contains apartments?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Excelsior Power Company Building.

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:02, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Excelsior Power Company Building is the oldest known surviving power plant in Manhattan and the only known New York City design by William Covington Gunnell? Source: NYCLPC pp. 6, 8
- ALT1:... that the Excelsior Power Company Building, the oldest known surviving power plant in Manhattan, became a New York City landmark in 2016 after a backlog of several decades? Source: DNA Info, NYCLPC p. 1
- ALT2:... that the Excelsior Power Company Building, the oldest known surviving power plant in Manhattan, is now an apartment building? Source: NYCLPC p. 6, White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot & Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 43.
- ALT3:... that the Excelsior Power Company Building, the oldest known surviving power plant in Manhattan, now contains apartments?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Confederate Memorial State Historic Site
Comment: I will also think of more hooks

Created by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 15:02, 10 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Long enough, new enough, nice article, seems fully policy compliant. Hook source says "oldest-known purpose-built commercial generating station standing in Manhattan"; I think that's close enough. I don't know William C. Gunnell, so I find ALT1 more appealing. ALT2 doesn't work too well for me as it wasn't the power plant basement that was turned into apartments, just the general industrial/business upper floors. QPQ still missing, otherwise should be fine with ALT1. Happy to review other hook suggestions. —Kusma (t·c) 09:09, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Kusma: Thanks for the review. I have now done a QPQ. I've also added ALT3, a slightly revised ALT2, to reflect what the sources actually say. epicgenius (talk) 16:27, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Epicgenius: QPQ has now been done. Approving both ALT1 and ALT3. —Kusma (t·c) 21:49, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics requested

Would be interesting to know:

how many tonnes of coal a day were consumed,
what voltage was generated/supplied
the layout of the power distribution cables, and what construction (multi-strand copper?), what current ?
was it only DC, or did it switch to AC at some point ? - Rod57 (talk) 17:13, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]