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1916 miners' lodging house on Chihuahua Hill, now a B&B with a lady-in-white tradition
45 OK Street, Bisbee, AZ 85603
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Room rates run roughly $78-$108 per night plus tax; Euro-style rooms with shared baths are the lower end, king and double rooms the higher.
Access
Limited Access
Two-story 1916 lodging house at the top of Chihuahua Hill; stairs and a steep street approach
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1916 · Bisbee Copper Mining Era · Early Twentieth-Century Miners' Lodging · Old Bisbee Historic District
Bisbee grew up around the Copper Queen and neighboring claims in the Mule Mountains of southeastern Arizona, and by the 1910s the town needed beds for the men working its mines. The structure at 45 OK Street, near the top of Chihuahua Hill, was built in 1916 by S.P. Bedford as a 24-room lodging house. Within a year Bedford leased it to Kate La More, whose name the building still carries.
The property changed hands several times across the twentieth century and was renovated in the 1980s and again in 1996, when it reopened as a bed-and-breakfast. Today it operates as the Bisbee Inn / Hotel La More, a 20-room inn with a mix of private and shared baths in the center of Old Bisbee. Local accounts note that an earlier pair of wooden lodging houses on the same land burned around 1915, prompting the masonry building that stands now.
The inn leans into Bisbee's mining-era character and its haunted reputation, which is woven through the town's ghost-tour circuit. Its hilltop position and period rooms make it one of the more recognizable lodgings in a town built almost entirely on the copper trade.
Sources
The inn's central tradition is a woman the staff and guests call Abigail. The story holds that she stayed at the lodging house in its early years and never really left; guests in Room 12 describe a female figure at the window, looking out as though waiting, and a lavender or floral scent with no source. The detail of the scent recurs across visitor accounts and is the part most often repeated on Bisbee's ghost tours.
Beyond Abigail, the inn collects the kind of low-key activity common to old lodging houses: doors that open and close on their own, footsteps in empty rooms at night, and a figure glimpsed behind curtains. Room 23 has its own smaller legend, a phantom cat whose purring guests say they hear at night.
The Bisbee Inn appears regularly in regional roundups of haunted Arizona lodgings and on local ghost-walk itineraries, where Abigail's window vigil and the lavender scent are the signature details. The inn itself acknowledges the reputation without staging it, leaving the accounts to its guest registers and the town's tour guides.
Notable Entities
Stay overnight at the historic inn. Room 12 is the room most often tied to the inn's 'Abigail' tradition, where guests describe a woman at the window and the smell of lavender; Room 23 carries the phantom-cat story. Rooms can be requested when you book directly with the inn.
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