{"id":1923,"slug":"connor-hotel-jerome-arizona","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Connor is the '98 — the 'twice burned' that's the '97 and '99, the 'insured' that's the rebuilt. The 'dollar a night' is the luxury — the 'call bells' that's the wired, the 'telephone number 8' that's the early. The 'Lady in Red' is the resident — the 'Room 1' that's the whispers, the 'touched' that's the reported.","The 'ghost town' is the wane — the '31 closed' that's the mines, the 'flophouse' that's the '70s second life. The 'Jerome' is the cliff — the 'billion dollars' that's the copper dug, the 'sliding jail' that's the town. The Connor is the surviving — the 'restored' that's the '00, the 'still taking guests' that's the haunted.","The file keeps the Connor: the double fire, the dollar rooms, the Lady in Red, and the ghost-town survival.","The Connor Hotel is the archive's Arizona file — the twice-burned hotel."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Connor Hotel is the archive's Arizona file — the insured survivor.","A hotel keeps its register — the file's suggestion being that the Connor's hold is the persisted: the 'burned twice' that's the rebuilt, the 'flophouse' that's the endured, and the 'Lady in Red' that's the never checked out."]}],"name":"Connor Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Historic hotel associated with an alleged female apparition.","full_desc":"Connor Hotel is a hotel in Jerome, Arizona. Historic hotel associated with an alleged female apparition. David Connor built the hotel in 1898; after fires it reopened in August 1899. Rooms closed in 1931 and later reopened. Local lore holds that Arizona Office of Tourism recounts a spirit identified in local tours as Ann Hopkins appears in the hallways.","address":null,"city":"Jerome","county":null,"state":"Arizona","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":34.747088,"lon":-112.107515,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://connorhotel.com/","phone":"928-634-5006","year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Alleged spirit identity not merged with a verified historic person. Original building dated 1898; reopened after fires in August 1899. Mailing and street address not verified.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":58.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":982,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Arizona Office of Tourism recounts a spirit identified in local tours as Ann Hopkins appears in the hallways. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. 'Ghost Tours of Arizona' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Ann Hopkins","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ghost Tours of Arizona","url":"https://www.visitarizona.com/like-a-local/ghost-tours-of-arizona","publisher":"Arizona Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"David Connor built the hotel in 1898; after fires it reopened in August 1899. Rooms closed in 1931 and later reopened. Connor Hotel's documented history in Jerome, Arizona is the record the rest of the file stands on. It enters the file through media reporting — documented coverage, not folklore. 'The History of the Connor Hotel' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"The History of the Connor Hotel","url":"https://connorhotel.com/the-history-of-the-connor-hotel/","publisher":"Connor Hotel","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Arizona Office of Tourism recounts a spirit identified in local tours as Ann Hopkins appears in the hallways. A hotel in Jerome, Arizona with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'Ghost Tours of Arizona' keep the claim in circulation. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Ghost Tours of Arizona","url":"https://www.visitarizona.com/like-a-local/ghost-tours-of-arizona","publisher":"Arizona Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Ann Hopkins","claimed_identity":"Ann Hopkins","verified":null,"summary":"Arizona Office of Tourism recounts a spirit identified in local tours as Ann Hopkins appears in the hallways. A hotel in Jerome, Arizona with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is Ann Hopkins. The file stays open on it.","behavior":"Arizona Office of Tourism recounts a spirit identified in local tours as Ann Hopkins appears in the hallways.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Ghost Tours of Arizona","url":"https://www.visitarizona.com/like-a-local/ghost-tours-of-arizona","publisher":"Arizona Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"events":[{"name":"Hotel reopening after fires","type":"RECONSTRUCTION","date_start":"1899-08","date_end":null,"description":"The Connor Hotel reopened in August 1899 after fires gutted Jerome's business district — rebuilt in brick to survive a mining town that had already burned itself down twice. For decades it was the finest address in the Verde Valley; its name survives today in the restored hotel on Jerome's main street, still taking guests above the old copper camp.","evidence":"RECONSTRUCTION","source":{"name":"The History of the Connor Hotel","url":"https://connorhotel.com/the-history-of-the-connor-hotel/","publisher":"Connor Hotel","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[{"name":"David Connor","role":"Builder and owner","birth":null,"death":null,"bio":"Developed the original hotel and financed rebuilding after fires. The dossier ties David Connor to Connor Hotel as builder and owner. The entry is documented through 'The History of the Connor Hotel'. David Connor is filed as a documented person — part of the record the place’s stories hang on."}],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","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":"Ghost Tours of Arizona","url":"https://www.visitarizona.com/like-a-local/ghost-tours-of-arizona","publisher":"Arizona Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"The History of the Connor Hotel","url":"https://connorhotel.com/the-history-of-the-connor-hotel/","publisher":"Connor Hotel","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":2}}