{"id":568,"slug":"historic-bundy-house-binghamton-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Bundy House is the clockmaker's — the 1892 Queen Anne for Harlow Bundy, the time recorder that became IBM. The company was the giant — the Bundy Manufacturing that punched the world's clocks, the '24 merger that made International Business Machines. The house is the museum — the Main Street landmark, the Rod Serling archive, the barbershop that's the corporate culture.","The clocks were the product — the thousands of workers who punched in on Bundy machines, the jeweler's invention that timed the world. The museum is the preservation — the 2004 opening, the galleries that keep the Victorian. The Bundy House is the industry's home — the IBM origin in the parlor, the time recorder's mansion.","The file keeps the Bundy House: the 1892 construction, the clock company, the IBM merger, and the museum.","The Bundy House is the archive's Binghamton file — the clockmaker's Queen Anne."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Bundy House is the archive's Binghamton file — the IBM founder's home.","A house keeps its machines — the file's suggestion being that the Bundy's hold is the clock: the time recorder that punched the world's workers, the Queen Anne that's the museum, and the IBM that grew from it."]}],"name":"Historic Bundy House","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE_MUSEUM","type_label":"Historic House Museum","cats":["HAUNTING","PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_SITE"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Former Bundy family home whose museum announced a 2026 temporary closure amid conflicting tour listings.","full_desc":"Historic Bundy House is a historic house museum in Binghamton, New York. Former Bundy family home whose museum announced a 2026 temporary closure amid conflicting tour listings. Built in 1892 for Harlow and Julia Bundy; later uses included boarding, offices and printing. Museum rehabilitation began in 2002. Reported lore and claims include: The museum and Phantom Visions Paranormal advertise investigations and ghost tours; the accessed listing supplies no specific encounter details.","address":"129 Main Street","city":"Binghamton","county":"Broome","state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.101331,"lon":-75.909369,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"CLOSED","access":"RESTRICTED","access_notes":"House tours suspended according to official closure notice. A September 18 listing remains online but includes stale 2024 text; confirm authorization and actual operation. Annex events are not evidence the historic house is open.","ownership":null,"website":"https://www.bundymuseum.org/","phone":null,"year_built":1892,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":2026,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":66.9,"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":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":430,"type":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION","description":"The museum and Phantom Visions Paranormal advertise investigations and ghost tours; the accessed listing supplies no specific encounter details. The reports at Historic Bundy House are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. Investigators logged it; whether instruments or interpretation produced it is the open question. The report is preserved in sources like 'September 18 ghost tour listing'. Investigators logged it; the interpretation remains the investigator's own.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":"Tour availability conflicts with the museum closure notice.","source":{"name":"September 18 ghost tour listing","url":"https://www.bundymuseum.org/upcoming-events/2026/9/18/the-historic-bundy-house-ghost-tours-hosted-by-phantom-visions-paranormal1","publisher":"Bundy Museum of History & Art","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built in 1892 for Harlow and Julia Bundy; later uses included boarding, offices and printing. Museum rehabilitation began in 2002. Historic Bundy House's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Historic Bundy House'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Historic Bundy House","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-historic-bundy-house","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}},{"description":"The museum announced August 22, 2026 as its final open day before a temporary closure and reorganization; some separately scheduled Annex Theater events may continue. Historic Bundy House's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Temporary closure notice'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Temporary closure notice","url":"https://www.bundymuseum.org/","publisher":"Bundy Museum of History & Art","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"ghost_tours":"Unresolved: closure notice suspends tours, while a September 18, 2026 event remains advertised. No availability assumed.","reservation_requirement":"Direct confirmation required due conflicting official pages.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:20+00:00","source":{"name":"Temporary closure notice","url":"https://www.bundymuseum.org/","publisher":"Bundy Museum of History & Art","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Historic Bundy House","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-historic-bundy-house","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"Temporary closure notice","url":"https://www.bundymuseum.org/","publisher":"Bundy Museum of History & Art","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2},{"name":"September 18 ghost tour listing","url":"https://www.bundymuseum.org/upcoming-events/2026/9/18/the-historic-bundy-house-ghost-tours-hosted-by-phantom-visions-paranormal1","publisher":"Bundy Museum of History & Art","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}