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Oracle, Arizona
Edwin and Lillian Dodge built this adobe ranch house in Oracle in 1882 as a boarding house, and by the turn of the century it was taking in…
Ashmore, Illinois
This building traces back to the Coles County Poor Farm, established in 1857 to house the area's poor, elderly, and mentally ill; the…
Four Oaks, North Carolina
Bentonville Battlefield was the site of the largest battle fought in North Carolina, March 19 to 21, 1865, in the last months of the Civil…
Savannah, Georgia
At Candler Hospital, visitors and students have long reported cold spots, disembodied voices, and shadowy figures inside, particularly near…
Franklin, Tennessee
Carnton Plantation in Franklin was the home of the McGavock family and became a field hospital after the Battle of Franklin on November 30,…
Cashtown, Pennsylvania
Owners and guests of the Cashtown Inn have described thumping doors, lights turning on and off on their own, doors locking and unlocking by…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The Dobbin House on Steinwehr Avenue was built in 1776 by Reverend Alexander Dobbin as a house and school; it is said to have been a…
Scotch Grove, Iowa
Jones County ran a poor farm on this land from the mid-1800s, housing people who were poor, disabled or mentally ill in exchange for work…
Westland, Michigan
Eloise began in 1839 as the Wayne County Poorhouse and grew into a sprawling campus of more than 70 buildings that served at different…
Newtown, Connecticut
Fairfield Hills State Hospital was dedicated in 1931, took its first patients in 1933 and closed in 1995, housing thousands of patients at…
Fort Bayard, New Mexico
Fort Bayard was founded in 1866 as a cavalry post that included Buffalo Soldiers and Apache scouts, and it later became a tuberculosis…
Fort Stanton, New Mexico
Fort Stanton was an Army post founded in 1855 in the hills of Lincoln County, in the country of the Mescalero Apache and the Lincoln County…
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The Gettysburg Hotel on Lincoln Square began in 1797 as the Scott Tavern, was later the Indian Queen and the McClellan House, and was used…
Williamsburg, Virginia
The Governor's Palace, home of Virginia's royal governors from the 1720s, was rebuilt in the 1930s on its original foundations as part of…
Fort Bragg, California
Built in 1915 as Fort Bragg's first hospital, this redwood building on North Main Street later served the town as a maternity unit before…
Hollywood, Florida
Opened in 1925, this 500-room hotel was a favorite getaway for Al Capone and his associates escaping Chicago winters and the heat of the…
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Hotel Provincial in the French Quarter has been owned and run by the Dupepe family since 1961 and is spread across several restored…
Rockville, Indiana
The Indiana State Sanatorium east of Rockville was the state's main tuberculosis hospital from about 1908 to 1968, built on hundreds of…
Marietta, Georgia
Built in 1845 as a cotton warehouse and converted into the Fletcher House hotel in 1855, this building beside the Western and Atlantic…
Malvern, Iowa
This three-story building was built in the 1870s as a railroad hotel for travelers passing through Malvern. By the mid-twentieth century it…
Mansfield, Connecticut
Operating from 1860 until its 1993 closure, Mansfield Training School and Hospital housed and treated people with intellectual…
Savannah, Georgia
Opened in 1851 by businesswoman Mary Marshall, the Marshall House is Savannah's oldest continuously operating hotel. It served as a…
Abingdon, Virginia
The Martha Washington Inn in Abingdon began as a private home in 1832, became Martha Washington College for women, served as a hospital for…
Vicksburg, Mississippi
McRaven is one of the oldest houses in Vicksburg, built in stages from 1797 and added to in the 1830s and 1849. During the 1863 siege it…