# The Power Plant | Clubs | House Music Blends Museum

Public page: HMB SITE MUSEUM/clubs/the-power-plant/the-power-plant.md

The Power Plant is a real Chicago club history entry and a review-status foundation club in the House Music Blends Museum.

## Club Detail

The Power Plant is preserved in the Museum as an important post-Warehouse chapter connected to Frankie Knuckles, Chicago club continuity, and the movement of the early house music audience into new rooms.

This club page connects The Power Plant to the Museum's Chicago foundation through club history, DJ links, timeline placement, and review-status source work.

## Archive Status

Verification status: review.

Detail verification status: review.

The Power Plant is treated as a real history entry in review status because public sources connect Frankie Knuckles to a post-Warehouse Chicago club period using Power Plant, Power House, or Powerhouse wording.

Detailed claims about exact name sequence, address, opening date, closing date, ownership, weekly operation, room layout, sound system, event dates, and crowd history should remain in review until source notes are tightened.

## Museum Placement

Category: Clubs

City connection: Chicago

Primary timeline band: 1982-1987

Related DJ: Frankie Knuckles

Related city page: Chicago

Related artist page: Frankie Knuckles

Related club page: The Warehouse

Related club page: The Music Box

## Why It Matters

The Power Plant helps the Museum show that the Chicago foundation did not stop with The Warehouse.

After The Warehouse period, Frankie Knuckles remained connected to Chicago's house music development through another club chapter, while Ron Hardy and The Music Box carried a different side of the city's dance-floor energy.

## Verified And Review Core Facts

Frankie Knuckles is publicly connected to a post-Warehouse Chicago club period after leaving The Warehouse.

Verification status: verified.

Public sources connect that post-Warehouse period to Power Plant, Power House, or Powerhouse wording.

Verification status: review.

The Power Plant is connected to the Museum's Chicago club foundation because it helps explain movement from The Warehouse into later early-house rooms.

Verification status: review.

The Power Plant is connected to The Music Box in the Museum timeline because public house histories discuss Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy in overlapping Chicago club-history context.

Verification status: review.

## Review Notes

The Museum should not lock exact naming, address, opening date, closing date, or ownership details until stronger source notes are added.

Verification status: review.

The Museum should keep the visible card in review status until The Power Plant details are backed by stronger source material than broad public summaries.

Verification status: review.

## Source Notes

Working public reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Knuckles

Working public reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music

Working public reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warehouse_(nightclub)

These sources support the basic post-Warehouse Frankie Knuckles connection and show why the entry belongs in the Museum, but the exact venue details still need stronger source review.

Review status means deeper claims about exact name sequence, address, ownership, operating dates, sound system, crowd history, and venue identity should be added only after source review.

## House Music Blends Museum Note

House Music Blends keeps The Power Plant in the archive as a review-status foundation club entry because the Museum is building Chicago house history through connected people, places, records, labels, cities, and timelines.