Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Georgetown Car Barn/archive1
Blurb review[edit]
Any comments or changes for this suggested TFA blurb? (Btw, this one is right at the upper character limit.) - Dank (push to talk) 14:07, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
The Car Barn is a historic building in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Designed by the American architect Waddy Butler Wood, it was built between 1895 and 1897 by the Capital Traction Company as a union terminal for several Washington and Virginia streetcar lines. The Exorcist steps, later named after their appearance in William Friedkin's 1973 horror film The Exorcist, were built during the initial construction to connect M Street with Prospect Street. Almost immediately after its construction, it was converted to accommodate electric streetcars. The building has undergone several renovations, the most extensive in 1911, when the original Romanesque Revival façade was significantly modified and the interior was almost completely gutted. Changing ownership over time, it maintained its original function of housing streetcars until 1950, when it was redeveloped as office space. Today, it is used as an academic building by Georgetown University. (Full article...)
- Pinging Ergo Sum: This will run on the 31st. I just want to double-check that you're okay with the sentence "Initially intended as a passenger station, the Car Barn was almost immediately converted to store electric streetcars." Did it quickly lose its role as a passenger station? I wasn't sure. - Dank (push to talk) 01:14, 21 March 2019 (UTC) I could restore your word "accommodate" if you like. - Dank (push to talk) 01:15, 21 March 2019 (UTC) And maybe: "Almost immediately after its construction ...". - Dank (push to talk) 02:31, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Dank: Thanks for the heads up. Yes, the building remained a passenger station for many decades, though it stored trolley cars as well. I used the word accommodate to indicate both senses. Ergo Sum 02:34, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Okay, sorry. I made an edit ... does that fix it? - Dank (push to talk) 02:39, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, looks good now. Ergo Sum 04:56, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Okay, sorry. I made an edit ... does that fix it? - Dank (push to talk) 02:39, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Dank: Thanks for the heads up. Yes, the building remained a passenger station for many decades, though it stored trolley cars as well. I used the word accommodate to indicate both senses. Ergo Sum 02:34, 21 March 2019 (UTC)