Connecticut
Abigail of the Old Pettibone Tavern — Simsbury, CT
In Simsbury, Connecticut, where the land rises and folds into old New England shadow, there stands a building whose past has never…
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Minnesota
Molly, the Maid of the Forepaugh Mansion — Saint Paul, MN
At 276 Exchange Street South in Saint Paul, the house still seems to hold itself apart from ordinary time. It was built…
Puerto Rico
The Carmelite Nuns of Hotel El Convento — San Juan, PR
In Old San Juan, where the streets are narrow and blue-gray cobblestones hold the day’s heat long after sunset, Hotel El Convento…
Georgia
The Mill Women of Sweetwater Creek — Lithia Springs, GA
At Sweetwater Creek State Park, the forest does not so much surround the ruins as reclaim them, patient root by patient root.…
Kentucky
Rafinesque’s Curse at Old Morrison — Lexington, KY
On the campus of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, Old Morrison stands with the grave composure of a monument that has learned…
Utah
The Restless Voices of Mountain Meadows — Enterprise, UT
Mountain Meadows lies high in the southwestern reaches of Utah, a long valley lifted into the thin, watchful air of the plateau…
Alaska
The Clara Nevada Dead at Eldred Rock Lighthouse — Haines, AK
In the cold reach of Lynn Canal, near Haines, there is a small island of stone and wind where Eldred Rock Lighthouse…
U.S. Virgin Islands
The Jumbies of Annaberg Plantation — Cruz Bay, VI
At Annaberg, the stones do not look dead. They stand open to the sky on St. John, broken and sun-whitened, with the…
Kentucky
The Gray Lady of Liberty Hall — Frankfort, KY
In Frankfort, Kentucky, where history seems not merely preserved but absorbed into brick, wood, and winter air, Liberty Hall stands with the…
South Dakota
Seth Bullock Still Keeps Watch at the Bullock Hotel — Deadwood, SD
Deadwood was never a town that belonged entirely to daylight. It rose in a narrow fold of the Black Hills, clenched between…
Wisconsin
Agatha Karsten and the Restless Rooms of the Karsten Hotel — Kewaunee, WI
On the shore of Lake Michigan, where the wind comes in broad and cold and the water seems to breathe against the…
Wisconsin
The Watchful Ghost of Charles Pfister — Milwaukee, WI
The Pfister Hotel stands in Milwaukee not merely as a building, but as a kind of civic memory made stone and glass.…