The Exchange Hotel in Montgomery, Montgomery County, was one of three hotels in southern states owned by Sterling Lanier, paternal grandfather of poet, musician, and novelist Sidney Lanier (1842-1881). Sidney worked at the hotel from 1865 to 1867, during which time he wrote his only novel, Tiger-Lilies. Located at the intersection of Commerce and Montgomery Streets, this was the second incarnation of the building and was demolished in the 1970s.
Exchange Hotel, 1909
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Courtesy of the the Alabama Department of Archives and History
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