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Palmer House Hotel

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Sauk Centre, MN

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HAUNTING / GHOSTBuilt 1901Operating hotel / restaurantPUBLICDOCUMENTEDLEGEND

OVERVIEW

A historic hotel and restaurant built in 1901 on the site of the town's first hotel, which had burned the prior year; author Sinclair Lewis, a Sauk Centre native, worked here as a young man and fictionalized the town in his 1920 novel "Main Street."

REPORTED ACTIVITY

Long a fixture of Minnesota paranormal tourism, the hotel was featured on the Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures; guests and staff report footsteps and children's voices in the upstairs hallways, moving objects, and cold spots, with much activity attributed by owners to the top floor and basement.

VISITING

An operating historic hotel offering rooms, dining, and scheduled paranormal tours.

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EXTERNAL RESOURCES

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