{"id":2241,"slug":"hotel-vendome-prescott-arizona","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Hotel Vendome is the small hotel with the famous ghost — the 1917 red-brick building cowboy Jack Jones put up on Cortez Street when Prescott was booming with miners and health-seekers, the 'classiest place in town' with 31 rooms and a cat-haunted Room 16. It's the ghost story that has a cat in it — Abby Byr and Noble, the TB patient and her pet who never left.","The legend is the hotel's claim — Abby sick in Room 16, her husband gone for medicine and never back, the door locked until someone pried it open and found her and the cat. The reports since have been the small ones: objects moved, lights and faucets, and the purring from the closet where Noble is supposed to be. The hotel's a hundred years of owners — baker, carpenter, FBI agent — and the ghost outlasted them all.","The building survived the flophouse years — the elegant hotel went cheap and rundown, the 1983 restoration nearly went bankrupt, and the RTC finished it while keeping the room numbers on the doors. It's the best example of post-territorial tourist architecture in Prescott — the small hotel that kept its character and its ghost, Room 16 still rentable with the cat included.","The Hotel Vendome is the archive's Room-16 file — the 1917 Prescott hotel, Abby and Noble's legend, and the small building that outlasted the boom and kept its ghost through every ownership."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Vendome is the archive's small-hotel file — the Prescott inn with the territory's most persistent ghost, the TB story the legend is built on, and the room that's still haunted by a woman and her cat.","A hotel that kept its ghost keeps its room — the file's suggestion being that the Vendome's hold is Room 16: the locked door the legend came through, the closet where Noble is heard, and the room that's still rented with the story included."]}],"name":"Hotel Vendome","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_HOTEL"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Prescott’s 1917 hotel—Abby and her cat Noble.","full_desc":"A hotel in Prescott, Arizona, built in 1917, Hotel Vendome is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Prescott’s 1917 hotel—Abby and her cat Noble. Its signature presence is Abby — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 2 reported claims and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. It still takes guests.","address":null,"city":"Prescott","county":null,"state":"Arizona","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":34.592241,"lon":-112.446733,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1917,"year_opened":1917,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Hotel","research_notes":"Historic haunted hotel batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":49.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1607,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Abby and the cat Noble are reported in room 16. The Prescott hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Hotel Vendome (Prescott)'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Abby","where":"Room 16","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":"The starvation story is legend; Abby’s documented identity is unclear.","source":{"name":"Hotel Vendome (Prescott)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vendome_(Prescott,_Arizona)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":1608,"type":"REPORTED_ANOMALIES","description":"Reported a cat on the bed and a woman’s presence. The Prescott hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. 'Hotel Vendome (Prescott)' carries the account. The anomalies are minor and stubborn — which is exactly why they're still in the record.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Hotel Vendome (Prescott)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vendome_(Prescott,_Arizona)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Abby and the cat Noble are reported in room 16. A hotel in Prescott, Arizona with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Hotel Vendome (Prescott)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vendome_(Prescott,_Arizona)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Abby","claimed_identity":"Abby","verified":null,"summary":"Abby and the cat Noble are reported in room 16. A hotel in Prescott, Arizona with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The report is preserved in sources like 'Hotel Vendome (Prescott)'. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Abby.","behavior":"Abby and the cat Noble are reported in room 16.","area":"Room 16","first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Hotel Vendome (Prescott)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vendome_(Prescott,_Arizona)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved hotel property; public areas vary—check directly for tours or overnight stays.","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":"Hotel Vendome (Prescott)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vendome_(Prescott,_Arizona)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Hotel Vendome","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vendome","desc":"Topics referred to by the same term","extract":"Hotel Vendome may refer to: \n\nHotel Vendome (Prescott, Arizona), a historic hotel on the National Register of Historic Places\nHotel Vendome (San Jose, California) in San Jose, California\nHotel Vendome fire, a 1972 fire in Boston, Massachusetts\nHôtel de Vendôme (boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris), location of the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris\nHôtel de Vendôme (place Vendôme, Paris), a hotel since 1858\nHôtel de Vendôme (rue Saint-Honoré), a mansion in Paris from 1603 to 1685; demolished to make way for the Place Vendôme\nHotel Vendome (novel), a 2011 novel by Danielle Steel","img":null,"score":89},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}