Artist House B&B

The Artist House still carries a reputation for unexplained activity and moved objects tied to Robert the doll's years there: schoolchildren walking past would look up and say they saw Robert move from one side of the turret window to the other, giggling was reported from the room, and some say Gene's wife, Anne, who disliked the doll and demanded it be kept in the attic, remains trapped in the turret room where the doll was once kept. Guests can stay in the old turret bedroom today. The Victorian mansion at 534 Eaton Street, built between 1890 and 1898, was home to Eugene "Gene" Otto, who as a child was given a handmade Steiff doll by a family servant and named it Robert. Gene blamed childhood mischief on the doll for years. After Gene's death in 1974, new owner Myrtle Reuter found Robert still in the attic; she kept him at the house until 1980, when she moved to a private residence on Von Phister Street and took the doll with her, then donated him to the Fort East Martello Museum in 1994, where he remains on display.