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The Princess of the Mount Washington Hotel

The grand hotel at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, opened in 1902; its founder Joseph Stickney died within a year, and hotel lore says his widow Carolyn still walks its halls.

1902 CE · 44.26, -71.44 · status: legend

The account

Carolyn Stickney spent summers at the hotel for a decade, adding rooms and a chapel in her husband's memory. Staff and guests tell of a woman in Victorian dress and of her four-poster bed in the room named after her.

The sceptical view

This is hotel folklore, the kind historic resorts often encourage.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Mount Washington Hotel
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