Croke-Patterson Mansion (Patterson Inn)

Thomas Croke, a Denver businessman, built this Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in 1891; two years later U.S. Senator and newspaper publisher Thomas Patterson bought it and lived there until his death in 1916. It stood empty and deteriorating for years afterward before eventually being restored, and since 2013 has operated as the Patterson Inn, a bed and breakfast on the National Register of Historic Places. A long-told story holds that a jilted bride threw herself from the third-floor turret; historians have never been able to confirm the event took place. Guests and staff describe a woman in a wedding dress at the turret windows and in the hallways, the scent of pipe tobacco in a building where smoking is banned, and dark shapes moving through the corridors.