{"id":2227,"slug":"bourbon-orleans-hotel-new-orleans-louisiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Bourbon Orleans is the ballroom's — the '17 Latrobe design that survived the fire, the quadroon balls that were held. The nuns were the '81 — the Holy Family who made it the convent, the St. Mary's that's the first Black school. The orphans were the girls — the asylum that's now the courtyard, the pool that's the playground.","The ghosts are the 17 — the Confederate soldier and the nuns, the dancer who's lonely. The hotel is the '64 — the Bourbon Kings that restored it, the $7 million that was spent. The Bourbon Orleans is the layered — the theater, the convent, the orphanage, the hotel.","The file keeps the Bourbon Orleans: the 1817 ballroom, the '81 convent, the orphanage, and the 17 ghosts.","The Bourbon Orleans is the archive's New Orleans file — the ballroom's layers."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Bourbon Orleans is the archive's New Orleans file — the convent's hotel.","A ballroom keeps its dancers — the file's suggestion being that the Bourbon Orleans' hold is the layers: the opera that was the first, the nuns who taught, and the ghosts who stay."]}],"name":"Bourbon Orleans Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_HOTEL"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"A former ballroom and convent—Civil War orphans and a dancer’s ghost.","full_desc":"The Bourbon Orleans occupies an 1817 ballroom—the site of the famous Quadroon Balls—and an 1881 convent that housed orphan girls during the Civil War. Its lore includes a confederate soldier, children’s voices, and a woman dancing alone in the ballroom; the building sits beside St. Louis Cathedral in the Quarter’s most haunted block.","address":null,"city":"New Orleans","county":null,"state":"Louisiana","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.05342,"lon":-89.934502,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1817,"year_opened":1817,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Hotel","research_notes":"Historic haunted hotel batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1571,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Reported figures include a soldier, orphan girls and a woman dancing in the ballroom. The dancer is the name the reports keep returning to. Bourbon Orleans Hotel, a hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. 'Bourbon Orleans Hotel' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The dancer","where":"Ballroom","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Bourbon Orleans Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Orleans_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":1572,"type":"REPORTED_ANOMALIES","description":"Children’s laughter and footsteps in the former convent floors. A hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. 'Bourbon Orleans Hotel' carries the account. The anomalies are minor and stubborn — which is exactly why they're still in the record.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Bourbon Orleans Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Orleans_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1817 as a ballroom; the convent addition housed Civil War orphans. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Bourbon Orleans Hotel' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1817","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Bourbon Orleans Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Orleans_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures include a soldier, orphan girls and a woman dancing in the ballroom. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Sources including 'Bourbon Orleans Hotel' keep the claim in circulation. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Bourbon Orleans Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Orleans_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The dancer","claimed_identity":"The dancer","verified":null,"summary":"Reported figures include a soldier, orphan girls and a woman dancing in the ballroom. The file calls it The dancer. Bourbon Orleans Hotel, a hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is The dancer.","behavior":"Reported figures include a soldier, orphan girls and a woman dancing in the ballroom.","area":"Ballroom","first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Bourbon Orleans Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Orleans_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved hotel property; public areas vary—check directly for tours or overnight stays.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Bourbon Orleans Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Orleans_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}