Talk:St. Paul Building

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A fact from St. Paul Building appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 August 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that when New York City's St. Paul Building was demolished, part of the facade (pictured) was preserved in Indianapolis?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at 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)[reply]

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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
- ALT2:~~... 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

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hawona Sullivan Janzen

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 22:29, 9 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

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)[reply]