Template:Did you know nominations/Century Building (17th Street, Manhattan)

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:14, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Century Building (17th Street, Manhattan)

  • ... that the Century Building, once headquarters for the Century publishing company, later became a Barnes & Noble bookstore? Source: NYCLPC p. 6, NY Times
    • ALT1:... that the Century Building was built as a speculative project, whose developers had purchased the land underneath more than a decade before building it? Source: NYCLPC pp. 3-4
    • ALT1a:... that the Century Building was built in 1880 as a speculative project, the developers having purchased the land more than a decade earlier?

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 15:12, 13 November 2019 (UTC).

  • This is a five-fold expansion and is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, either hook could be used and I have added ALT1a, which is ALT1 rephrased. The article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:48, 23 November 2019 (UTC)