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Historic 1890s mining-era boarding house turned bed-and-breakfast in Jerome, with reported female apparition in the Cleopatra Hill room
541 N. Main Street, Jerome, AZ 86331
Research updated September 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
Overnight stay rates vary by room; check inn website
Access
Limited Access
Historic multi-level inn on Jerome's steep hillside; stairs throughout.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1890 · Jerome National Historic Landmark District · Copper-mining boarding house · Garcia family ownership
The Ghost City Inn building was constructed around 1890 to house workers employed by the copper mines that defined the town of Jerome, Arizona. For more than fifty years, the property was owned by the Garcia family and was known locally as the Garcia House. Across the twentieth century the building was repurposed multiple times — as a restaurant, a spiritual retreat, a funeral home, and an art gallery — before being converted into a bed-and-breakfast in 1994.
Major restoration projects took place in 1994, 2003, and 2014. The inn sits on Main Street within Jerome's National Historic Landmark district. Jerome itself, once one of Arizona's largest cities during the copper boom of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, lost most of its population after the United Verde mine closed in 1953 and is widely referred to as a ghost town — a reference that informs the inn's name more directly than any single paranormal account.
The inn currently operates six guest rooms named after local landmarks, mining-era figures, and Jerome's history.
Sources
Local tradition holds that a female spirit appears most often in the Cleopatra Hill room, where guests and innkeepers have reported seeing a figure standing near the bed or by the window. A separate male presence has been reported in the hallway outside the Verde View room. According to the inn's own materials, the Ghost City Inn does not claim its name is derived from a specific haunting — the name refers to Jerome's status as a ghost town — but the property does acknowledge persistent accounts from guests and owners.
Other reports collected by Legends of America and regional travel writers include doors opening on their own, footsteps in upstairs hallways, and the sense of a presence in unoccupied rooms.
Notable Entities
Six-room bed-and-breakfast in an 1890s mining-era building, with a hearty breakfast served daily and a verandah view across the Verde Valley. Rooms are themed after Jerome history; the Cleopatra Hill room is the location most often associated with paranormal accounts.
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