Fairview Inn

The Fairview opened in 1923 as the overnight stop between Seward and Fairbanks on the newly finished Alaska Railroad, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. President Warren Harding dined here that July, on his way back from opening the railroad at Nenana; he died in San Francisco a fortnight later, which was enough to start a rumour, never substantiated, that he had been poisoned at the inn. It still operates as a bar and inn on Talkeetna's main street. Staff and guests describe footsteps crossing the old floorboards upstairs, doors and lights behaving oddly, and a presence the regulars call Frank. No death is recorded at the inn, and nobody has established what is behind the reports.