Monroe, New York

Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
McGarrah's Inn is a Federal-style stagecoach inn and tavern on Stage Road in Monroe, built in the late 1700s (sources give dates from about 1790 to 1799). Freemasons met here from 1817 to 1826, and its 1817 Lodge Room is billed as the oldest Masonic meeting room in New York State. Cornerstone Lodge No. 711 bought the building in 1998, the year it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the nonprofit Cornerstone Masonic Historical Society now works to preserve it.
The historic marker notes that some claim the building is haunted and that it has appeared on several paranormal TV shows, including a two-part investigation on Playing with Fire. One paranormal group that visited said it could not confirm the claim that the inn is among the Hudson Valley's most haunted places, but reported that its wireless camera screen turned red in the basement with no explanation.
Not open to the public. This is a private historical-society building, so please view it from Stage Road only and do not enter the building or walk the grounds. Contact the Cornerstone Masonic Historical Society about any visit.
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