U.S. Grant Hotel

Ulysses S. Grant Jr., son of the president, built this hotel in his father's name, and it opened on October 15, 1910. His wife, Fannie Chaffee Grant, daughter of Colorado's first U.S. senator, had died on November 10, 1909, eleven months before it opened. Her husband later remarried and lived at the hotel with his second wife, and staff tradition holds that Fannie's spirit stayed on and does not approve. Housekeepers report objects moved while rooms are empty and lights switching on and off by themselves. Guests have described a large, stocky, grey-haired man in a black suit standing at the foot of the bed, and two guests in separate rooms once found, comparing notes the next morning, that each had seen the same figure shortly before an earthquake shook San Diego.