Documented places and attributed folklore
Historical haunted places
Research-led guides to real American places associated with ghost lore. Each page identifies what is documented, what is reported, and what remains legend.
329 historic places
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Providence, RI
Completed in 1865 for Henry and Mary Ann Lippitt, the Renaissance Revival mansion preserves elaborate painted finishes, stained glass, woodwork, furnishings, technology, and four generations of family history tied to textile wealth and politics.
Legend
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Fall River, MA
A restored Fall River home, museum, and inn interpreting the unsolved 1892 Borden murders, Gilded Age society, trial history, and reported hauntings.
Reported
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Harpers Ferry, WV
The Armory paymaster's house served wartime and refugee needs before becoming an early classroom and administrative building for Storer College, one of the nation's important institutions founded to educate formerly enslaved people and their descendants.
Legend
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Portland, OR
The landscape's first recorded burial dates to 1846; it became Mount Crawford Cemetery in 1855 and was renamed Lone Fir in 1866, preserving broad Portland and regional history.
Legend
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Natchez, MS
Construction of the octagonal Longwood began for Haller and Julia Nutt shortly before the Civil War and stopped before the elaborate upper floors were completed.
Legend
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Santa Fe, NM
Completed in the nineteenth century for the Sisters of Loretto, the chapel brought a Gothic Revival stone vocabulary into Santa Fe and later became famous for its unusual spiral staircase.
Legend
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Baton Rouge, LA
Completed in 1850, James Dakin's Gothic Revival statehouse witnessed secession, Union occupation, a devastating Civil War fire, reconstruction, later political conflict, restoration, and conversion to a political history museum.
Legend
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Louisville, KY
The theater opened in 1928 as Loew's and United Artists State Theatre, with John Eberson's atmospheric Spanish courtyard design creating an immersive movie palace.
Legend
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Virginia City, NV
The house is associated with Comstock mining administration and the fortunes of John Mackay, preserving architecture, objects, and stories from the boom and later preservation eras.
Venue marketing
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Charleston, SC
Dedicated in 1850, Magnolia is a rural cemetery shaped by winding drives, water, monuments, changing public-health ideas, and memorial culture.
Legend
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Baton Rouge, LA
The late-eighteenth-century Creole house and surviving landscape interpret plantation agriculture, French Creole culture, architecture, domestic life, preservation, and the labor and lives of enslaved people.
Legend
Historic place
Butte, MT
The Wah Chong Tai and Mai Wah buildings preserve rare physical evidence of Butte's Chinese community, including commerce, residence, medicine, migration, exclusion, and changing neighborhood life.
Legend