{"id":2564,"slug":"yankee-pedlar-inn-torrington-connecticut","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Yankee Pedlar Inn is the movie hotel — the 1891 Conley Inn that Ti West filmed as 'The Innkeepers,' the Victorian showplace Frank and Alice Conley built for $40,000, and the hotel where Alice still rocks her chair in the lobby. Room 353 is where she died.","The hotel was the dream — the Irish immigrant's finest hotel in Connecticut, the marble floors and the spiral staircase and the hot water in every room. The Conleys ran it until they died in 1910; the Yankee Pedlar name came in 1956.","The inn is still there — the Patels running it since 1997, the rocking chair roped off with 'Please do not sit in Mrs. Conley's chair,' the room 353 that's the haunted one. The file keeps the hotel: the Conley dream, the movie, and the ghost who still checks on her guests.","The Yankee Pedlar is the archive's movie file — the 1891 Conley Inn, 'The Innkeepers' film, and Alice's rocking chair that's still roped off in the lobby."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Yankee Pedlar is the archive's movie file — the hotel that became a horror film, Alice Conley's room, and the rocking chair that's still off-limits.","A hotel that was a movie keeps its chair — the file's suggestion being that the Pedlar's hold is Alice's rocker: the lobby chair that rocks by itself, the room where she died, and the inn that's still her dream."]}],"name":"Yankee Pedlar Inn","aliases":[],"type":"INN","type_label":"Inn","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING"],"groups":["hauntings","legends","lodging"],"desc":"The 1891 inn where \"The Innkeepers\" was filmed.","full_desc":"Yankee Pedlar Inn is an inn in Torrington, Connecticut. The 1891 inn where \"The Innkeepers\" was filmed. HauntHunt files it with local folklore and haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still takes guests. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"Torrington","county":null,"state":"Connecticut","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":41.834072,"lon":-73.131409,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"New England dark batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2058,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence in the rooms. The Torrington hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. 'Yankee Pedlar Inn' carries the account. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Yankee Pedlar Inn","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Pedlar_Inn","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1891; the film’s location. The hotel in Torrington, Connecticut has its past on record — this entry belongs to that verified layer. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Yankee Pedlar Inn'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1891","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Yankee Pedlar Inn","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Pedlar_Inn","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported a presence in the rooms. A hotel in Torrington, Connecticut with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Sources including 'Yankee Pedlar Inn' keep the claim in circulation. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Yankee Pedlar Inn","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Pedlar_Inn","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","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":"Yankee Pedlar Inn","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Pedlar_Inn","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Yankee Pedlar Inn","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Pedlar_Inn","desc":"Historic hotel located in Torrington, Connecticut, USA","extract":"The Yankee Pedlar Inn is a historic hotel located in Torrington, Connecticut, US. The inn, which now has 52 rooms, was built for its original owners, Frank and Alice Conley, in 1891. It was originally given a colonial New England architectural style.\nThe inn closed on 1 December 2015 for extensive renovations, which were expected to take 7–9 months to complete but subsequently stalled due to lack of funds. In September 2017, the property owner, Jayson Hospitality, said renovations would begin again that fall. \"Residents and visitors will begin to see improvements to the beloved Yankee Pedlar this fall along with an anticipated re-open in the spring of 2018 under the umbrella of a Best Wester","img":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Torrington0062_YankeePedlar_sm.JPG?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled","score":104,"lat":41.80241,"lon":-73.12167},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}