OLD STONE HOUSE
Historic House — 3051 M Street NW, Washington, Washington, D.C.
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/old-stone-house-washington-washington-d-c/

Preserved Georgetown house with apparition folklore.

Old Stone House is a historic house in Washington, Washington, D.C.. Preserved Georgetown house with apparition folklore. Layman-family construction began after their 1764 purchase; Christopher died in 1765. Cassandra Chew expanded the building by 1775. Federal purchase in 1953 led to seven years of restoration. Local lore holds that GW describes a third-floor cold-spot spirit called George.

The Old Stone House in Georgetown was begun after the Layman family's 1764 purchase — the oldest standing building in Washington, built before the city existed. The file's honest register includes the correction: archaeology and historical research refuted the former identifications as Washington's headquarters and a tavern — the house's legends having inflated before the scholarship cut them down.
The building's real spine is enough: a pre-Revolutionary house in the capital's oldest neighborhood, standing since before there was a capital.

GEORGE ON THE THIRD FLOOR
GW recounts the house's resident: a third-floor cold-spot spirit called George — a presence in the upper rooms of the city's oldest building, given a name the lore supplies. The file's ghost is generic in name and specific in location — a cold spot on the third floor, a presence the tours keep.
The file's shape is the archive's honesty: the Washington-headquarters legend refuted, the George presence reported — a house whose real history needed no embellishment and whose ghost needed no documentation.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Old Stone House is the file where the debunked and the reported coexist — Washington's oldest building, its myths corrected by archaeology, its ghost still on the third floor. The file keeps both corrections and claims: the house isn't what legend said, and it reportedly keeps George anyway.
A pre-Revolutionary house in the capital, its famous myths disproven, its cold spot still reported — the file's suggestion being that the real history was always enough.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] cold spots: GW describes a third-floor cold-spot spirit called George. Third floor is where the accounts cluster — the site's own map of where to look. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. 'The True (-Ish) Stories behind D. C. 's Famous Ghosts' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Sources including 'The True (-Ish) Stories behind D. C. 's Famous Ghosts' keep the claim in circulation. The pattern of small anomalies is itself the claim — none dramatic alone, persistent together.
  source: The True (-Ish) Stories behind D.C.'s Famous Ghosts (https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/true-ish-stories-behind-dcs-famous-ghosts)

HISTORY — 2 documented facts
· Layman-family construction began after their 1764 purchase; Christopher died in 1765. Cassandra Chew expanded the building by 1775. Federal purchase in 1953 led to seven years of restoration. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Old Stone House: history'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
· Archaeology and historical research refuted the former Washington-headquarters and tavern identifications. A house in Washington, Washington, D.C. with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Old Stone House: history'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.

SOURCES — 3 cited
· The True (-Ish) Stories behind D.C.'s Famous Ghosts — George Washington University / GW Today
  https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/true-ish-stories-behind-dcs-famous-ghosts
· Old Stone House: history — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/rocr/learn/historyculture/old-stone-house-history.htm
· Old Stone House Visitor Center — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/rocr/planyourvisit/old-stone-house-visitor-center.htm

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