By Cancer (original post)

In the oldest part of hotel (which has clearly been added to and remodeled repeatedly), now difficult to get to, is the ceremonial cornerstone of the original structure. Included are its date, the architects, contractors, original owners, and the name of the structure. It's the name that's creepy. It wasn't originally a hotel. Among the options: it was an asylum for the criminally insane; it was a sweatshop factory infamous even in the 1880's for unsafe conditions and worker injuries and deaths; it was a boarding school for some obscure cult which ended in a firey, orgiastic, gruesome bloodbath; it was a leprosarium, or other de facto prison and place-to-die for the medically unfit or physically cast out; or something else quite unsavory.

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