GRAND EASTONIAN HOTEL & SUITES
Hotel — Easton, Pennsylvania
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Hotel research record.

A hotel in Easton, Pennsylvania, Grand Eastonian Hotel & Suites is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Hotel research record. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. 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. It is the sort of entry the archive keeps because the ground and the telling both survive.

The Grand Eastonian began as the Hotel Easton, raised in 1926 on Northampton Street — the city's entry in the era's contest of mid-sized towns building landmark hotels as downtown crown jewels. Philadelphia's Thomas, Martin & Kirkpatrick designed a ten-story tower in the New York skyscraper manner, and the grand opening on February 10, 1927, drew four hundred guests, ice-carved urns of flowers, and an orchestra; the papers called it the most picturesque event the city had held. Eleanor Roosevelt and Jack Dempsey later signed the register.

THE DOCUMENTED RECORD
The city's decline took the hotel with it: it closed in bankruptcy in 1990 — drinks reportedly left in the bar, beds left unmade — and sat empty for a decade. Easton Hotel Restoration acquired the building in 2000, shifted from hotel revival to condominiums in 2004, and preserved the marble stair, the lobby, the Gold Room, and the elevator lobbies; the upper floors' small rooms became apartments while hotel suites returned below.

WHAT'S REPORTED
The house legend is unusually well-staffed: the Williams twins, Leslie and Leslor, who ran the hotel in its heyday, are said to still be on duty. Guests file a top-hatted man on the elevator and in the halls — Leslie wore one — plus items that vanish and reappear elsewhere, and a spectral cat reported on the second floor, in the Gold Room, and at the foot of beds. Management tells it with affection; the file logs it as reported lore attached to a genuinely documented rescue.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Local stories describe a top-hatted elevator apparition and a spectral cat. The Easton hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Haunted Hotels in Pennsylvania'. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: Haunted Hotels in Pennsylvania (https://www.visitpa.com/blog/post/haunted-hotels-pennsylvania/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Haunted Hotels in Pennsylvania — Visit Pennsylvania
  https://www.visitpa.com/blog/post/haunted-hotels-pennsylvania/

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