Haunted Inns

49 haunted inns mapped across 26 cities, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• 17Hundred90 InnInn · Savannah, GAOne of the oldest inns in Savannah, the 17Hundred90 sits at 307 East President Street, near the eastern edge of the historic district where the city still trades on the unhurried luxury of times gone by.
• 1842 InnInn · Macon, GAJudge John Jones Gresham, a Macon attorney, jurist, and two-time mayor, raised the Greek Revival mansion on College Street in 1842 as a forever home for his family, living there until his death in 1900.
• 1886 Crescent Hotel & SpaInn · Eureka Springs, ARBilled as 'America's Most Haunted Hotel,' the Crescent opened in 1886.
• 1905 Basin Park HotelInn · Eureka Springs, AROpened July 1, 1905, the seven-story Basin Park rises against a limestone bluff downtown, built on the site of the earlier Perry House.
• Andrew Jackson HotelInn · New Orleans, LAThe site at 919 Royal Street began as a Spanish colonial boarding school for boys, many orphaned by yellow fever, until the great French Quarter fires of 1794 reduced it to ash and, by legend, claimed five young boys trapped inside.
• Battery Carriage House InnInn · Charleston, SCTucked behind the 1843 Stevens-Lathers mansion on Charleston's Battery, this brick carriage house opened as an inn in 1970 under the Drayton-Hastie family and earned a reputation as the city's most haunted lodging.
• Bourbon Orleans HotelInn · New Orleans, LAIn the heart of the French Quarter, the Bourbon Orleans rose from the Orleans Ballroom and Theatre, where lavish Creole balls once filled the room beneath its chandeliers.
• Casablanca Inn on the BayInn · St. Augustine, FLBuilt in 1914 as the Matanzas Hotel, this Mediterranean Revival inn sits on the bayfront in St. Augustine and is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
• Cashtown InnInn · Gettysburg, PABuilt in 1797 as a stagecoach stop on the turnpike west of Gettysburg, the Cashtown Inn took its name from an early innkeeper who accepted only cash.
• Connor HotelInn · Jerome, AZDavid Connor built this brick hotel and saloon on Main Street, rebuilding in 1898 after fire twice razed the structure as it had much of early Jerome.
• Curry Mansion InnInn · Key West, FLThis grand Victorian mansion was begun under William Curry, a shipwreck salvager said to be Key West's first millionaire, and reworked into its present form by his son Milton around 1905.
• East Bay InnInn · Savannah, GAEdward Padelford raised this restrained brick building with its cast-iron façade in 1852, when it stood among the cotton warehouses lining Savannah's bluff above the river.
• Eliza Thompson HouseInn · Savannah, GACotton merchant Joseph Thompson built this Greek Revival home in 1847 for his wife Eliza and their seven children, making it the first house on Jones Street, long celebrated as one of the most beautiful streets in America.
• Elkhorn Lodge and Guest RanchInn · Estes Park, COThe Elkhorn traces to an 1874 cabin that the James family built into a hunting-and-fishing lodge, making it one of the oldest continuously operating guest ranches in the Rocky Mountain region; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
• Ellis HotelInn · Atlanta, GAOpened in 1913 and advertised as "absolutely fireproof," the 15-story Winecoff Hotel on Peachtree Street became the site of the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history on December 7, 1946, when flames raced up a single open stairway and killed 119 people, including thirty Georgia high school students in town for a YMCA youth assembly.
• Emily Morgan HotelInn · San Antonio, TXBuilt in 1924 as the Gothic-style Medical Arts Building, this tower stood directly across from the Alamo and operated for decades as a medical center, housing doctors' offices and a small hospital before conversion to a hotel in 1984.
• Farnsworth House InnInn · Gettysburg, PABuilt around 1810 as a log house with an 1833 brick addition, the Farnsworth House sat in the line of fire during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, when Confederate sharpshooters climbed into its attic garret and fired toward Union positions on East Cemetery Hill, leaving more than a hundred bullet scars visible in its south wall.
• Foley House InnInn · Savannah, GAThe Foley House Inn stands on Hull Street facing Chippewa Square, a pair of joined Victorian townhouses built in 1896 and 1870 and named for Honoria Foley, the woman behind the property.
• Ghost City Inn Bed & BreakfastInn · Jerome, AZBuilt around 1890 as a boarding house for middle mine management during Jerome's copper boom, this Main Street building has served over the decades as a private home for the Garcia family for over 50 years, then a restaurant, a spiritual retreat, a funeral home, and an art gallery before becoming a bed and breakfast in 1994.
• Hamilton-Turner InnInn · Savannah, GABuilt in 1873 at 330 Abercorn Street, this Second Empire mansion was home to Samuel Pugh Hamilton, the silver and cotton merchant locals called "the Lord of Lafayette Square." Its mansard roof and Connecticut limestone made it the grandest house on the square, and Hamilton's ties to the Brush Electric Light & Power Company brought lights to its salon in 1883, said to be the first home in Savannah with electricity.
• Hawthorne HotelInn · Salem, MAOpened in 1925 and named for Salem's own Nathaniel Hawthorne, this six-story Colonial Revival hotel on Washington Square has long been the city's grand address, said to stand near land once tied to the witch-trial accused Bridget Bishop.
• Hotel Galvez (Grand Galvez)Inn · Galveston, TXOpened in 1911 and nicknamed the "Queen of the Gulf," the Galvez is best known for the ghost of Room 501, called Audra or the "Lovelorn Bride." Local lore says a young woman in the 1950s rented the room while awaiting her fiance, a mariner sailing into the Port of Galveston.
• Hotel MacomberInn · Cape May, NJBuilt in 1916, this grand shingle-style hotel on Beach Avenue is best known for the "Trunk Lady" of Room 10.
• Hotel MonteleoneInn · New Orleans, LAThe Hotel Monteleone began in 1886, when Sicilian immigrant Antonio Monteleone bought a small hotel at Royal and Iberville streets and grew it into a French Quarter landmark, family-owned through five generations and beloved by writers from Faulkner to Capote.
• Jekyll Island Club ResortInn · Jekyll Island, GABuilt in 1887 as a winter retreat for America's wealthiest families, the Jekyll Island Club drew Morgans, Rockefellers, Pulitzers, and Vanderbilts to its riverfront verandas, an enclave whose members were said to control a sixth of the world's wealth.
• Kehoe HouseInn · Savannah, GAThe Kehoe House is a grand Queen Anne mansion at 123 Habersham Street on Columbia Square, built in 1892 for Irish immigrant and iron foundry owner William Kehoe, who raised ten children within its ornate brick walls.
• Linden Row InnInn · Richmond, VALinden Row Inn occupies seven Greek Revival row houses built in the mid-1800s on a downtown block layered with Edgar Allan Poe history.
• Lizzie Borden HouseInn · Fall River, MAOn August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet in this Greek Revival home; Andrew's daughter Lizzie was tried and acquitted, leaving the case unsolved.
• Marrero's Guest MansionInn · Key West, FLCigar maker Francisco Marrero built this Victorian mansion to bring his beloved Enriquetta to the island, where they married and raised eight children.
• Menger HotelInn · San Antonio, TXOpened in 1859 beside the Alamo, the Menger is the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi and one of the most documented haunted hotels in America, said to host dozens of spirits.
• Olde Harbour InnInn · Savannah, GAThe Olde Harbour Inn stands on the Savannah River bluff between River Street and Factors' Walk, on a site that traces back to warehouses raised around 1812 to hold the cotton moving through the port.
• Riverview HotelInn · St. Marys, GABuilt in 1916 on the banks of the St. Marys River, the Riverview Hotel was run for nearly a century by the Brandon sisters, who greeted Cumberland Island ferry travelers with southern charm and home cooking.
• Southern Oaks InnInn · Lavonia, GACharles P. Ray built the gracious oak-shaded home now known as the Ray-Cheek House in 1918, and it was here, in an upstairs room, that he drew his last breath.
• St. Francis InnInn · St. Augustine, FLBuilt in 1791 by Gaspar Garcia, a sergeant in Spain's Cuban infantry regiment, the St. Francis Inn rose during St. Augustine's Second Spanish Colonial Period and was converted to a lodging house in 1845; it survives today as the city's oldest inn, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• The Baldpate InnInn · Estes Park, COHoneymooners Gordon and Ethel Mace homesteaded this mountainside in 1911 and opened the Baldpate Inn in 1917, naming it after the mystery novel Seven Keys to Baldpate.
• The Clinkscale (Mile High Inn)Inn · Jerome, AZBuilt in 1899 on the ashes of a burned-out building, this Main Street structure was given thick fire-resistant walls and later became associated with Jerome madam Jennie Banters, one of the territory's wealthiest businesswomen.
• The Gunter HotelInn · San Antonio, TXThe Gunter, opened in 1909, is tied to one of San Antonio's most chilling unsolved crimes.
• The Jefferson HotelInn · Richmond, VAOpened in 1895 as Lewis Ginter's grand showpiece and designed by Carrere and Hastings, the Jefferson is a Beaux-Arts landmark once famous for live alligators kept in its marble pools.
• The Marshall HouseInn · Savannah, GAThe Marshall House stands on Broughton Street in Savannah's historic district, a brick hotel built in 1851 by Mary Marshall and ranked among the oldest in the city.
• The Merchant HotelInn · Buford, GAWhen the Merchant Hotel opened in downtown Buford in the early 1890s, it was the nicest and only lodging between Atlanta and Gainesville; travelers stepped off the train at the depot across the street, climbed to the second-floor lobby, and took home-cooked meals on the veranda.
• The Myrtles PlantationInn · St. Francisville, LABuilt circa 1796 by General David Bradford and now a bed-and-breakfast, the Myrtles is routinely called one of America's most haunted homes.
• The Omni Grove Park InnInn · Asheville, NCThe Pink Lady is Asheville's most famous ghost, reported at this 1913 stone resort for nearly a century.
• The Partridge InnInn · Augusta, GAPerched on Augusta's Summerville hill, the Partridge Inn began in 1836 as a private residence and grew into a sprawling Southern hotel after Morris Partridge converted it in 1892, its verandahs and white columns earning a place among the Historic Hotels of America.
• The Southern MansionInn · Cape May, NJBuilt in 1863 by Philadelphia industrialist George Allen and designed by architect Samuel Sloan, this opulent bracket-style estate served as the Allen family's summer home for over 80 years.
• The Stanley HotelInn · Estes Park, COBuilt in 1909 by Stanley Steamer inventor F.O.
• The Tremont HouseInn · Galveston, TXHoused in the 1879 Leon H. Blum Building in historic downtown, the Tremont House carries the name of an earlier hotel that hosted figures like Sam Houston and Ulysses S. Grant.
• Windsor HotelInn · Americus, GAOpened in 1892, the Windsor Hotel rose over downtown Americus as a red-brick Victorian palace of towers, balconies, and a three-story atrium lobby, drawing politicians and celebrities fleeing northern winters.
• Windward HouseInn · Cape May, NJA circa-1905 Edwardian seaside cottage on Jackson Street now run as a bed-and-breakfast inn, Windward House is said to be haunted by a spirit the owners call Bridgette, an Irish girl described as appearing in a dress of shiny gold fabric.
• Worley Homestead InnInn · Dahlonega, GABuilt in 1845, this antebellum home near the Dahlonega town square became the Worley family's homestead in 1865, after Captain William J. Worley returned from the Civil War, and stayed in the family until 1932.