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Prescott, Arizona
The Hassayampa Inn opened in 1927, paid for in part by Prescott residents who wanted a first-class hotel near the courthouse, and it still…
Tucson, Arizona
Guests and staff at Hotel Congress describe a woman in lace who leaves a scent of roses in the lobby, a man in Victorian dress in Room 214,…
Flagstaff, Arizona
The Monte Vista opened on New Year's Day 1927, one of the few American hotels built entirely with public money after a local fundraising…
Phoenix, Arizona
Guests at the Hotel San Carlos report a woman in white standing at the foot of the bed before crossing the room and disappearing, most…
Prescott, Arizona
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…
Prescott, Arizona
The Hotel Vendome opened in 1917 and is still a working hotel on Prescott's Cortez Street. Its ghost story belongs to Abby Byr, said to…
Jerome, Arizona
Guests at the Jerome Grand Hotel report a woman in a white gown who stands at the end of the bed waving her finger, a woman in a nurse's…
Yuma, Arizona
Lutes Casino in downtown Yuma is a long-running pool hall and restaurant, known for domino tables and a burger topped with a hot dog;…
Globe, Arizona
Built in 1907 and opened as Globe's main elementary school in 1917 — the future Arizona governor Rose Mofford was a pupil — this hillside…
Oatman, Arizona
Oatman was a gold boomtown from 1915 to 1917 and lost its mines when the federal government ordered gold mining shut during World War II.…
Oatman, Arizona
Guests and staff at the Oatman Hotel say Clark Gable's and Carole Lombard's laughter and whispers still come from the empty Room 15, and a…
Globe, Arizona
The 1910 Gila County Jail in Globe once connected to the neighboring courthouse by a catwalk nicknamed the Bridge of Sighs. Its best-known…
Bisbee, Arizona
Guests at the Oliver House report ghostly footsteps in the hallways at night, cold spots, a rocking chair that moves of its own accord,…
Flagstaff, Arizona
John W. Weatherford built this hall in 1911 as the Majestic Opera House. Heavy snow brought the roof down in 1915, and it reopened in 1917…
Phoenix, Arizona
The Orpheum opened in January 1929 as a Spanish Colonial Revival movie palace, and after a restoration that ran from 1986 to 1997 it is…
Prescott, Arizona
The Palace has stood on Whiskey Row since September 1877, making it the oldest continuously operating restaurant and bar in Arizona. Wyatt…
Pearce, Arizona
Pearce grew after Cornish miner James Pearce found gold at what became the Commonwealth Mine in 1894, and had about 1,500 residents by 1919…
Bisbee, Arizona
Miners worked the tunnels beneath Bisbee's Mule Mountains from 1880 to 1975, in one of the richest copper camps in the world. Since 1976…
Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. Roland Rosson, an army surgeon who became a Phoenix physician and mayor, built this Queen Anne house in 1895, wired for electric light…
Tombstone, Arizona
Staff and visitors at the Russ House in Tombstone describe a noisy, playful presence that moves objects about, along with occasional…
Glendale, Arizona
William Henry Bartlett came from Illinois and founded Sahuaro Ranch in 1886, building it into a working spread of fig and fruit orchards,…
Chandler, Arizona
Dr. Alexander Chandler opened the San Marcos in 1913 as the centrepiece of the town he was planning, the first steel-reinforced building in…
Prescott, Arizona
Sharlot Hall Museum has kept the history of Arizona's central highlands since 1928, its four-acre campus built around the 1864 Territorial…
Bouse, Arizona
Swansea was a copper town of about 500 people served by its own railroad from Bouse, and the post office closed in 1924. The American…