Hotel St. Michael

Whiskey Row burned on July 14, 1900, taking the hotel that stood here with it. The Hotel St. Michael opened on the same corner in 1901 and still takes guests today. Theodore Roosevelt stayed here, and so, decades later, did Barry Goldwater. Its third floor carries most of the ghost stories: guests report whispers, knocking, lights switching on and off, and a sudden queasiness in the corridor. Room 315 is the room most often named, for a woman's presence and a recurring smell of perfume that nobody can account for.