{"id":1597,"slug":"windsor-hotel-americus-georgia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Windsor Hotel opened June 16, 1892 — Gottfried Norrman's Victorian palace in Americus, the small city's improbably grand hotel, restored and reopened in 1991 nearly a century after its debut. The file's documented spine is the hotel's ambition: a five-story castle in a cotton town, built when Americus was rich, revived when the town remembered it."]},{"heading":"Floyd Lowery and the child","paragraphs":["The lore recounts a child apparition and doorman Floyd Lowery — the file's ghosts being the hotel's own: a child in the halls and the longtime doorman reportedly still at his post, the staff ghost being the Windsor's most reported resident.","Floyd Lowery is the file's signature — a doorman whose service outlasted his life reportedly still working the door, the hotel keeping its most faithful employee."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Windsor is the archive's doorman file — an 1892 Victorian palace keeping a child apparition and its doorman Floyd Lowery still on duty. The documented hotel is the record; the staff's continued service is the lore.","A hotel that kept its doorman keeps him still — the file's suggestion being that Floyd Lowery's shift never ended at the Windsor's door."]}],"name":"Windsor Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Historic hotel with a published child-spirit tradition.","full_desc":"A hotel in Americus, Georgia, opened in 1892, Windsor Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic hotel with a published child-spirit tradition. The name the accounts keep returning to is Floyd Lowery. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It still takes guests.","address":"125 West Lamar Street","city":"Americus","county":null,"state":"Georgia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":32.074377,"lon":-84.222829,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://www.windsor-americus.com/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":1892,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery or enrichment; earliest report and independent corroboration remain under research. Confidence measures source provenance, not supernatural 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":811,"type":"APPARITION","description":"State tourism recounts a child apparition and doorman Floyd Lowery. The Americus hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. 'Where to Find Famous Georgia Ghosts' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Floyd Lowery","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.75,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Where to Find Famous Georgia Ghosts","url":"https://exploregeorgia.org/things-to-do/article/where-to-find-famous-georgia-ghosts","publisher":"Georgia Department of Economic Development","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Designed by Gottfried L. Norrman; opened June 16, 1892 and reopened after restoration September 20, 1991. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'History of The Windsor Hotel' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"History of The Windsor Hotel","url":"https://www.windsor-americus.com/hotel/history/","publisher":"Windsor Hotel","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"State tourism recounts a child apparition and doorman Floyd Lowery. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Where to Find Famous Georgia Ghosts","url":"https://exploregeorgia.org/things-to-do/article/where-to-find-famous-georgia-ghosts","publisher":"Georgia Department of Economic Development","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Floyd Lowery","claimed_identity":"Floyd Lowery","verified":null,"summary":"State tourism recounts a child apparition and doorman Floyd Lowery. Windsor Hotel, a hotel in Americus, Georgia, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. The report is preserved in sources like 'Where to Find Famous Georgia Ghosts'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"State tourism recounts a child apparition and doorman Floyd Lowery.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Where to Find Famous Georgia Ghosts","url":"https://exploregeorgia.org/things-to-do/article/where-to-find-famous-georgia-ghosts","publisher":"Georgia Department of Economic Development","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"History of The Windsor Hotel","url":"https://www.windsor-americus.com/hotel/history/","publisher":"Windsor Hotel","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2},{"name":"Where to Find Famous Georgia Ghosts","url":"https://exploregeorgia.org/things-to-do/article/where-to-find-famous-georgia-ghosts","publisher":"Georgia Department of Economic Development","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Windsor Hotel (Americus, Georgia)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Hotel_(Americus%2C_Georgia)","desc":"1892 hotel building in Georgia, US","extract":"The Windsor Hotel, Ascend Hotel Collection at 125 West Lamar Street in Americus, Georgia was built in 1892 to attract winter visitors from the northeastern United States. The five-story Queen Anne hotel was designed by a Swedish-born architect, Gottfried Leonard Norrman, working in Atlanta. It featured a hundred rooms and a three-story atrium. It closed in the early 1970s, but later reopened with 53 guest rooms.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Best_Western_Plus_Windsor_Hotel.jpg/330px-Best_Western_Plus_Windsor_Hotel.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":90,"lat":32.07222222,"lon":-84.23361111},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":2}}