91 places found

San Antonio, Texas
The Emily Morgan Hotel, beside the Alamo, occupies a 1924 Gothic Revival building that was built as a medical office tower and became a…

Los Angeles, California
The YWCA opened the Hotel Figueroa in 1926 as a safe place for women travelling alone. At 13 storeys, it was built to the city's height…

Key West, Florida
Built in 1862 as a Civil War-era coastal fort and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972, Fort East Martello is now…

Roswell, Georgia
Founders Cemetery is where the Roswell Ghost Tour ends, and tour guides say significant paranormal activity has been recorded in and around…

Spokane, Washington
The Fox Theater in downtown Spokane, an Art Deco movie palace opened in 1931 and now the home of the Spokane Symphony, is said to be…

French Lick, Indiana
Dr. William Bowles opened a small spa here in 1845 to capitalize on the area's natural sulfur springs; by 1901, former Indianapolis mayor…

New London, Connecticut
The Garde Theatre opened in 1926 as a vaudeville and movie house and is now a performing arts center. Staff tell of a lighting engineer who…

Malvern, Pennsylvania
The General Warren Inne in Malvern was built in 1745 as a way station on the road to Lancaster and was named for a Revolutionary general.…

Rawlins, Wyoming
The George Ferris Mansion in Rawlins is a Victorian house on the National Register of Historic Places, built in the early 1900s by Julia…

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…

Apalachicola, Florida
Built in 1907 as The Franklin Hotel and renamed the Gibson Inn when sisters Annie Gibson Hayes and Mary Ellen "Sunshine" Gibson bought it…

Tulsa, Oklahoma
Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa holds the art and artifacts collected by oilman Thomas Gilcrease, who died in 1962 and is buried in a mausoleum…

Helena, Montana
Grandstreet Theatre is a granite Romanesque building in downtown Helena that opened in 1901 as a Unitarian church, later served as the…

Springfield, Vermont
Hartness House in Springfield was built in 1903 and 1904 for James Hartness, a machine-tool maker who later served as governor of Vermont,…

Harvey, North Dakota
The Harvey Public Library was built on the site of the home of Sophia Eberlein, who in 1931 was murdered by her second husband in her…

Salem, Massachusetts
The Hawthorne Hotel, built in 1925 and named for Salem author Nathaniel Hawthorne, faces Salem Common and is the best-known hotel in the…

Anchorage, Alaska
The Anchorage Hotel opened in 1916, a year after the town was chartered, and added the annex next door in 1936. The 1916 building was sold…

Sheridan, Wyoming
The Sheridan Inn, a National Historic Landmark built in 1893 and once managed by Buffalo Bill Cody, has been restored as an inn with a…

Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Walter Devereux built the Hotel Colorado in 1893, eight years after Glenwood Springs was incorporated, modeling it on an Italian villa;…

Coronado, California
On Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1892, a young woman signed the Hotel del Coronado's register as Mrs. Lottie A. Bernard of Detroit and…

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Hotel Retlaw in downtown Fond du Lac opened in 1922 as the creation of Walter Schroeder, who spelled his own name backward for the hotel,…

Seattle, Washington
The Hotel Sorrento on First Hill opened in 1909 and remains one of Seattle's grand old hotels. Its best-known ghost is the author Alice B.…

Oceanside, California
The Hunter Steakhouse stands on a hill above Buena Vista Lagoon on the site of the Buena Vista Cemetery, opened in 1888. At least 37 people…

Fort Pierce, Florida
Students and staff at the college's McAlpin Theater describe a tall, lanky figure they call Lenny, often glimpsed in a bluish mist near the…