Historic House
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McPike Mansion
McPike Mansion, perched high atop Mount Lookout in Alton, Illinois—a city famously dubbed 'the most haunted small town in America'—is an iconic 16-room Italianate and Second Empire Victorian estate built in 1869. Long abandoned and partially ruined, the mansion is world-famous among ghost hunters for housing dozens of persistent spirits, including original owner Henry Guest McPike, a former servant named Eleanor, and restless entities in its stone wine cellar.