Talk:Exchange Hotel, Montgomery

A fact from Exchange Hotel, Montgomery appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 November 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Exchange Hotel, Montgomery (pictured), where Confederate president Jefferson Davis's inaugural procession started, also hosted Ku Klux Klan leaders, politicians, prostitutes, and two US presidents?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 03:35, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The Exchange Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1909

... that the Exchange Hotel, Montgomery, where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was inaugurated, also hosted Ku Klux Klan leaders, politicians, prostitutes, and two US presidents? (Here's some of it.)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cameron Shahbazi

Created by Drmies (talk). Self-nominated at 21:57, 12 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

The page is long and new enough and is well sourced. No copyvio was observed. The hook is interesting and informative. There's a minor issue though; does anywhere in the page read as if the hotel "hosted" prostitutes? --Mhhossein ^talk 07:26, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Hi Mhhossein, that's very kind of you but you really don't have to--please save it for someone who needs it more. As for the prostitutes, "hosted", well it has a broad definition, doesn't it. "In those days, the vice squad booked the date, went to the room and paid over money and then flashed the badge". I tweaked the phrasing in the article a little bit and I hope that suffices. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 15:41, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Hi Drmies, it was my pleasure. Anyway, the wording is even better know and the nomination can be promoted. Strongly suggest featuring the image, too (it's free). Congrats. --Mhhossein ^talk 06:11, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Organization

This article, while interesting, jumps around from topic to topic and back and forth in time. It really could use a more chronological development (the sentence mentioning its demolition isn't even in the section titled "Reputation and demise"). The sentence "When the first State Capitol burned down, on December 14, 1849, the legislature was in session in the Exchange" is confusing: was the legislature already in the hotel when the capitol burned (as the sentence suggests) or should the text start with "After", with the predicate possibly "moved its sessions to"? I'd make some of these changes, but don't know the facts. Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:55, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]