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Evergreen, Colorado
The Hiwan Homestead, built beginning in the 1870s as a mountain retreat, is now run as a museum by the Jefferson County Historical Society.…
Grass Valley, California
The Golden Gate Saloon opened on this site in 1851 and has poured continuously since 1852, which makes it a serious candidate for the…
Holly, Michigan
The Holly Hotel, built in 1891 on a railroad junction in downtown Holly, was for decades a restaurant and comedy club and is often called…
Homewood, Alabama
Before it was the Homewood Public Library, the building on Oxmoor Road was the Homewood Church of Christ. The city bought it in 1984 and…
North Adams, Massachusetts
Digging the Hoosac Tunnel through the mountain of the same name in western Massachusetts took from 1851 to 1875 — nearly a quarter century…
San Diego, California
The Horton Grand is two 1880s hotels in one. The Horton Grand, built in 1886 and modelled on a hotel in Innsbruck, Austria, and the plainer…
St. Charles, Illinois
Hotel Baker opened to the public on June 2, 1928, with rooms starting at $2.50 a night. Its sixth floor, originally the chambermaids'…
Sedalia, Missouri
Hotel Bothwell is a landmark 1927 hotel in downtown Sedalia that has hosted travelers, politicians and State Fair visitors for nearly a…
Tucson, Arizona
Guests and staff at Hotel Congress describe a woman in lace who leaves a scent of roses in the lobby, a man in Victorian dress in Room 214,…
Holton, Kansas
Hotel Josephine was built in 1889 by Holton businessman A.D. Walker and named for his four-month-old daughter, Josephine. The brick hotel…
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Hotel Provincial in the French Quarter has been owned and run by the Dupepe family since 1961 and is spread across several restored…
Kansas City, Missouri
Hotel Savoy in Kansas City's Garment District opened in 1888 and was long billed as the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the…
Prescott, Arizona
Whiskey Row burned on July 14, 1900, taking the hotel that stood here with it. The Hotel St. Michael opened on the same corner in 1901 and…
Prescott, Arizona
The Hotel Vendome opened in 1917 and is still a working hotel on Prescott's Cortez Street. Its ghost story belongs to Abby Byr, said to…
Chicago, Illinois
House of Blues Chicago opened in 1996 within the Marina City complex, in a space that had previously operated as the Marina Cinemas triplex…
Oceanside, California
The Hunter Steakhouse stands on a hill above Buena Vista Lagoon on the site of the Buena Vista Cemetery, opened in 1888. At least 37 people…
Brigham City, Utah
The Idle Isle Cafe on Brigham City's Main Street has served as a restaurant since 1921 and is among the oldest operating restaurants in…
Rockville, Indiana
The Indiana State Sanatorium east of Rockville was the state's main tuberculosis hospital from about 1908 to 1968, built on hundreds of…
Indianapolis, Indiana
During the first years of construction on this building, a special elevator was erected to move court witnesses to different floors of the…
Paso Robles, California
The Paso Robles area holds real, deep Indigenous history: the region was home to a Salinan village site occupied for an estimated 3,000…
Buffalo, New York
The Iron Island Museum is a local history museum in a former church and funeral home in Buffalo's Iron Island neighborhood, donated to the…
Bardstown, Kentucky
The Jailer's Inn is a bed and breakfast in the former Nelson County Jail in Bardstown. The jail, begun in 1797, held prisoners until 1987,…
Indianapolis, Indiana
Staff and students at the Allison Mansion have reported missing keys, moved objects, a library rearranged overnight and crying near the…
Williston, North Dakota
The James Memorial Art Center in Williston, built in 1911 in the Beaux Arts style as the city's public library and listed on the National…