The Lighthouse Inn

Built in 1902 as "Meadow Court," a private summer estate for steel magnate Charles S. Guthrie, the Mission-style mansion was converted into an inn in 1927 after Guthrie's widow began selling off the estate. It became a fashionable stop for Hollywood visitors in the 1940s, survived a fire in 1979, and was later restored after a period of vacancy; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its long-running ghost story holds that a bride fell to her death down the main staircase during a 1930 wedding — though a city historian later told the New York Times no record of such a bride exists. Independent of that legend, staff and guests report two Victorian-dressed women in the halls, unseen hands turning lights and televisions on and off, curtains shaking, the scent of perfume near the staircase, and two children, said to have died in the Hurricane of 1938, still said to inhabit the halls. The inn was featured on an episode of "Ghost Hunters."