Template:Did you know nominations/St. Paul Building
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 03:25, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
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St. Paul Building
part of the St. Paul Building
... that a section of New York City's St. Paul Building (pictured) is part of The Ruins in Indianapolis?Source: Mitchell 2019- ALT1:... that when New York City's St. Paul Building was demolished, part of the facade was preserved in Indianapolis (pictured)? Source: Mitchell 2019
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... that when New York City's St. Paul Building was demolished, universities, cities, and the United Nations were among those vying for the building's sculptures?Source: NY Times 1958, Mitchell 2019 - ALT3:
... that the St. Paul Building offered George B. Post, a critic of skyscrapers, "the occasion to say 'I told you so' at his own expense"?Source: Landau, Sarah; Condit, Carl W. (1996). Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865–1913. Yale University Press. pp. 241-242 - ALT4:
... that to demonstrate standpipe strength in the St. Paul Building, the New York City Fire Department let the standpipe run for four minutes before it burst?NY Times 1899
5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 22:29, 9 August 2020 (UTC).
Interesting historic structure, on fine sources, no copyvio obvious. The image is licensed and gives a good idea of the style, so will hopefully be chosen. I prefer ALT1 by far so dared to strike the others, to make life easier for a prep builder. - Consider to move that image more to context - the new position - to avoid sandwiching of text between image and ibox. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:22, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
