The Blennerhassett Hotel
Situated in downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia, The Blennerhassett Hotel is a grand Victorian hotel that opened its doors in 1889 during the height of the regional oil and gas boom. Built by prominent businessman William Chancellor, the hotel was designed to offer unmatched elegance and modern luxury to wealthy industrialists, politicians, and high-society travelers visiting the Ohio Valley. Named in honor of Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett—the wealthy Irish aristocrats who built an island estate nearby in 1798 and became embroiled in Aaron Burr's infamous treason plot—The Blennerhassett is equally famous as one of West Virginia's most actively haunted hotels, renowned for its ghostly 'Man in the Bowler Hat,' phantom newsboys, and mysterious music playing in empty ballrooms.