FRANKLIN HOTEL
Hotel — Strawberry Point, Iowa
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Hotel associated with documented cultural history.

A hotel in Strawberry Point, Iowa, Franklin Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Hotel associated with documented cultural history. The name the accounts keep returning to is Lily; Leo. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

The Franklin Hotel is Strawberry Point's corner landmark — the two-story brick hotel that went up in 1902 on the site of the old Blake stagecoach inn, built by the Franklin Hotel and Land Company to serve the railroad passengers coming through the junction of Highways 3 and 13. Its curved corner follows the intersection; the limestone-railed porch is still plumb after a hundred and twenty years.
The hotel's ghost is Lily — the 1920s working girl who is said to walk the hall toward the dining room, seen by owner Doug Schmidt himself on a night he was alone in the lobby. The Schmidts have owned it since 1989, restored it room by room, and host the ghost hunters who come with their equipment; Doug stays skeptical, but he tells the story.
The file keeps the Franklin: the 1902 railroad hotel, the curved corner, Lily in the hall, and the Iowa small-town hotel that's still taking guests — living and otherwise.
The Franklin is the archive's Strawberry Point file — the railroad hotel, the ghost named Lily, and the town with the giant strawberry.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Franklin is the archive's Strawberry Point file — the 1902 hotel, the Lilly sightings, and the owners who preserve it anyway.
A hotel on the corner keeps its ghost — the file's suggestion being that the Franklin's hold is the hospitality: the building that served travelers for a century and the guest who never left the dining room.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] haunting: Local stories name spirits Lily and Leo. The figure answers to Lily; Leo in the retellings. The Strawberry Point hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The report is preserved in sources like '12 of Iowa's Most Haunted'. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.
  source: 12 of Iowa's Most Haunted (https://www.traveliowa.com/13-of-iowas-most-haunted/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· 12 of Iowa's Most Haunted — Travel Iowa
  https://www.traveliowa.com/13-of-iowas-most-haunted/

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