Granger House

This Victorian Italianate brick house in Marion was built around 1860 by Charles Myers. Earl Granger bought it in 1876 and his family lived here until 1973; he built up a livestock and banking fortune, added the carriage house in 1879 and expanded the house the next year. Granger's wife, Dora, lost four of the couple's seven children. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and now serves as Marion's Granger House Victorian Museum, furnished largely with original family pieces donated by a Granger descendant.

For years, visitors told of a white figure sitting in a window at midnight. The museum's director has said the figure is a reflection of mannequins stored in that room, and that the house is not haunted. The museum nonetheless runs flashlight tours and rents the house to paranormal investigation groups. An Iowa State Daily reporter who joined one such team, S.E.E. Paranormal, described spirit-box responses in the house and an EMF meter spiking in the carriage house, none of which can be independently verified.