BOURBON ORLEANS HOTEL
Hotel — New Orleans, Louisiana
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public · est. 1817
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/bourbon-orleans-hotel-new-orleans-louisiana/

A former ballroom and convent—Civil War orphans and a dancer’s ghost.

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.

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.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
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.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: 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.
  source: Bourbon Orleans Hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Orleans_Hotel)
· [Anecdotal] reported anomalies: 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.
  source: Bourbon Orleans Hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Orleans_Hotel)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1817] 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.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Bourbon Orleans Hotel — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Orleans_Hotel

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