R.G. Sullivan Cigar Factory Building (7-20-4 Building)

The R.G. Sullivan Cigar Factory Building's haunted reputation is now documented across three independent tiers: New Hampshire Magazine's statewide roundup of haunted places (a legitimate regional publication), the long-running Shadowlands Haunted Places Index, and the GhostQuest.net New Hampshire directory, supplemented by inclusion in the Let's Roam Manchester NH Ghost Tour route. The recurring paranormal claims across these sources are: disembodied sounds of children crying and laughing on upper floors, occasional apparitions of young children, and doors that slam shut on their own.

New Hampshire Magazine summarizes the lore as: 'The building used to be a cigar factory that used child labor. Supposedly you can still hear children crying and can witness doors closing violently on their own.' The Shadowlands and GhostQuest entries cover the same claims with similar phrasing, suggesting a common oral-tradition origin in Manchester.

The traditional framing connects these reports to the claim that the early cigar industry employed child labor. HauntBound has not been able to independently corroborate child-employment specific to the R.G. Sullivan plant in mainstream historical sources — surviving Library of Congress and New Hampshire Historical Society photographs show adult unionized workers (the 1921 Library of Congress photograph documents employees as 100% Cigar Makers' International Union members) — so this causal link is best understood as a folkloric framing of the haunting rather than verified history.

The building is now Class A office space owned by York Cigar Building, LLC, and the haunted reports come primarily from former tenants and ghost-tour attendees. Visitors interested in the lore typically experience the building through the Let's Roam Manchester NH Ghost Tour, which includes it alongside the Millyard Museum, the Palace Theatre, the Hanover Street Market, and Elliot Hospital.