Who died at the Crescent Hotel?

In 2017, a 62-year-old man named William Thomas fell to his death from a fourth-story balcony inside the Crescent Hotel. The incident was determined to be an accident.

Was the Crescent Hotel a hospital?

After the college closed in 1934, the Crescent was leased as a summer hotel. In 1937, it got a new owner, Norman G. Baker, who turned the place into a hospital and health resort.

When did the Crescent Hotel become a hotel?

Opening May 1, 1886, the Crescent Hotel was completed by the E.S.I.C under the direction of General Powell Clayton. Costing $294,000, the hotel opened as a year round resort.

What happened in Crescent Hotel?

ghost stories. The Victorian 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa in Eureka Springs, Ark., hosts a wide variety of spirits. It is said that after the skeleton frame of hotel had been constructed in the 1880s that one of the Irish stone masons plunged to his death in what is now room 218.

Is Eureka Springs a dry county?

Arkansas has 75 counties, 34 of which are dry, and all alcohol sales are forbidden statewide on Sundays (Packaged beer and wine sales are currently allowed on Sundays in the cities of Altus, Eureka Springs, Springdale and Tontitown; additionally, licensed microbreweries can sell growlers for carry-out on Sundays) and

How old is the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs?

In 1997, Marty and Elise Roenigk purchased the Crescent Hotel and the 1905 Basin Park Hotel. They also owned War Eagle Mill, a historic mill and restaurant near Rogers. They spent about $10 million restoring the two hotels and lived on the top floor of the Crescent.

What happened Norman Baker?

Baker retired in ostentatious comfort to Miami, Florida, where he died on September 10, 1958, of cirrhosis. At the time of his death, he was living aboard a large yacht that was once owned by railroad developer Jay Gould.