HOTEL MONTELEONE
Hotel — New Orleans, Louisiana
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public · est. 1886
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The French Quarter’s literary hotel—the Carousel Bar and a floor of ghosts.

The Hotel Monteleone is an 1886 French Quarter landmark on Royal Street, the only hotel on the block to survive the 19th century. Its Carousel Bar hosted Hemingway, Williams and Capote—and its lore includes a young boy in the 14th floor, a maid who never left, and the spirit of founder Antonio Monteleone. The hotel is the Faulkner Society’s home and a Literary Landmark.

In 1886 a Sicilian cobbler named Antonio Monteleone bought a sixty-four-room hotel on Royal Street, and five generations later his family still owns it — the only grande dame in the French Quarter that never left the family's hands. The Monteleone grew with the city: expanded five times, survived two wars and a depression, and in 1949 installed the thing that made it famous — the Carousel Bar, the only revolving bar in America, twenty-five seats on a track turning a full circle every fifteen minutes.
It is one of three hotels in the country designated a National Literary Landmark, and it earned the title: Tennessee Williams set scenes here, Faulkner stayed while accepting the Legion of Honor, Hemingway mentioned the Carousel in 'The Night Before Battle,' Eudora Welty put it in 'The Purple Hat,' Anne Rice and Lyle Saxon drank at the bar. Truman Capote claimed his whole life that he was born at the Monteleone — the truth is his mother went into labor as a guest and the staff got her to Touro Hospital in time, which is close enough for New Orleans.
The hotel has a death in its record too. In 1942, Innis Patterson Truman — a New Orleans-born writer for the Federal Writers' Project — jumped from the twelfth floor. Lyle Saxon described her death in a letter; it is one of the few documented tragedies in a building whose legends are mostly literary.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Hotel Monteleone is the archive's literary file — the hotel where American literature's twentieth century drank, wrote, and occasionally died, still owned by the family of the cobbler who bought it.
A hotel that appears in a hundred and seventy-three works of fiction keeps its ghosts — the file's suggestion being that the Monteleone's dead are its authors, still drinking at a bar that never stops turning.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: Guests and staff report a young boy, a maid, and Antonio Monteleone himself on the upper floors. A hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. 'Hotel Monteleone' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.
  source: Hotel Monteleone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Monteleone)
· [Anecdotal] reported anomalies: Reported cold spots, a child’s voice and objects moved in the 14th-floor rooms. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. 'Hotel Monteleone' carries the account. The pattern of small anomalies is itself the claim — none dramatic alone, persistent together.
  source: Hotel Monteleone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Monteleone)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1886] Opened 1886; a Literary Landmark and home of the Carousel Bar. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Hotel Monteleone' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Hotel Monteleone — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Monteleone

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