Today on the grave talks, the Hotel Josephine, a conversation with

Christina's hotel manager. Hotel Josephine is known as the most haunted hotel in Kansas.

It was built by A.D. Walker in 1889 in Holton, Kansas.

It was named after Walker's daughter Josephine, who was born that same year.

The hotel was in continuous operation until December of 2010

and has had some very famous guests, including Grover, Cleveland.

The hotel was only shut down for one year

and reopened to welcome guests,

including those who never left.

I'm Carol Hughes in for Tony Bruski and today on this episode of The Grave Talks a conversation with

Christie Ayer's Hotel Manager at the Hotel Josephine.

Christie, I would love to start with the history of this hotel. 1889 for hotel in Kansas.

I live in Kansas.

That's an old hotel for these parties.

Mm-hmm. It absolutely is and it's still a hotel and it's basically always been a hotel which is even

more amazing considering a lot of these old buildings. They go through so many

phases and they never seem to stay whatever they initially were. But it was built in

1889. It was built by 80 Walker. He was the mayor of

Holton in 1877 and then he got together with a couple of proprietors in town and they put the hotel there. So Josephine would have been four months old so it didn't

open until 1890 and that's when Josephine would have been four months old.

So sometimes in the history you'll see discrepancy is between it opening in 1889 and

1890.

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