John Marshall House
Chief Justice John Marshall built this brick Federal home in Richmond's Court End neighborhood in 1790 and lived there 45 years until his death in 1835; Preservation Virginia has cared for it as a museum since 1911. It anchors the area's ghost lore with a figure known as "the brooding nun," and on the museum's haunted-history tours, investigators from the Center for Paranormal Research and Investigation report equipment malfunctions, cold breezes, and unseen hands brushing visitors, mostly in the bedroom believed to have belonged to Marshall's wife, Mary "Polly" Marshall, who spent her final years there in grief and illness.
Witnesses describe a small figure peering from a closet, lights flickering at candle height in empty windows, and furniture shifting on its own; one investigator said a recorder captured footsteps and a ghostly sigh.
📍 818 East Marshall Street, Richmond, VA 23219, Richmond, VA · Get directions