Talk:Kerns Hotel fire

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Picture on the main page is of the wrong hotel[edit]

I was confused trying to edit this article because the main picture shows a hotel with three stories, but the pictures at the time of the fire and during the fire show a building with four stories and a totally different window arrangement. The sources also kept talking about the hotel being a "four-story building". Even with the rooms being expanded from 162 to 211, it looked like the building was totally made over between the first picture and the 1934 fire pictures on the source pages. After looking at the diagram of the hotel and surrounding block that's on one of the cited source pages, and doing a Google, it looks like the hotel currently shown in the main picture in the front is the Hotel Wentworth, not the Kerns Hotel.

Here is the current picture on the article.

Here is a 1958 picture of the Hotel Wentworth...pretty obvious just by looking that it is the same building as shown in the current picture on the article.

I don't think this is OR because it's obvious by looking that the building is three stories, yet the sources and the previous version of the article keep talking about a four-story hotel, so something was obviously haywire. Also, based on the diagram on one of the sources, the Kerns Hotel is in the picture shown, but it's off to the back on the left, so the picture is misleading and should be replaced with one that definitely shows the hotel that burned. TheBlinkster (talk) 19:54, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]