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An 1877 brick hotel in the silver-mining town of Eureka, billed as Nevada's only fireproof hotel and known for a 'Lady in Red' featured on Ghost Adventures.
11 North Main Street, Eureka, NV 89316
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Historic Victorian rooms; reservations handled through the affiliated Eureka Gold Country Inn. See the booking site for current rates.
Access
Limited Access
Two-story 1877 brick hotel; guest rooms on the upper floor reached by stairs
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1877 · Built 1877 by Irish immigrant Andrew Jackson during Eureka's silver boom · Advertised as the only fireproof hotel in Nevada; survived a downtown Eureka fire · Renamed the Brown Hotel in 1907; restored as the Jackson House in 1981 · Within the Eureka Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places
The Jackson House opened in 1877, near the height of Eureka's silver-rush boom in central Nevada. It was built by Andrew Jackson, an Irish immigrant who intended the hotel to anchor the town's business and social life and to draw its new mining wealth. The two-story brick building — actually two adjacent structures unified by a single bracketed cornice and a porch curving around the corner — held two dozen rooms, a first-class restaurant, and a bar counted among the best in eastern Nevada.
The hotel's distinguishing claim was fireproofing. In an era when mining towns burned regularly, the Jackson House advertised itself as the only fireproof hotel in the state. That claim was put to a hard test when fire swept through downtown Eureka; flames damaged the interior, but the masonry building remained standing and the hotel reopened.
The property's name changed to the Brown Hotel in 1907, and like much of Eureka it declined as the mines played out over the following decades. In 1981 the building was restored as a historical hotel and given back its original name. It stands within the Eureka Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Today the Jackson House operates as a small Victorian-themed hotel, with upstairs guest rooms and a bar and restaurant on the main level, its lodging coordinated through the affiliated Eureka Gold Country Inn. It is one of the centerpieces of Eureka's preserved Main Street and a regular stop on the town's heritage and ghost-tourism circuit.
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The best-known story at the Jackson House is the Lady in Red — a figure draped in red said to move through the upstairs halls at night, drifting from room to room as if checking on guests. The Jackson Suite is described in guest and tour accounts as the most active room in the building.
Reported activity is the standard inn-haunting catalog: rattling doorknobs, disembodied footsteps in the halls, lights turning on without explanation, and a sense of being watched in the bar area. Some guest accounts go further, describing messages appearing on fogged mirrors or the sensation of being touched or tucked in. These are passed along as guest and staff experiences rather than verified events, and no specific historical individual is reliably identified as the Lady in Red.
The hotel's paranormal reputation drew the attention of the Travel Channel's 'Ghost Adventures,' whose crew investigated the building, raising its profile on the regional dark-tourism circuit. The Jackson House sits alongside the Eureka Opera House among the town's signature haunted stops, and its age, its intact Victorian interior, and the quiet of a depopulated mining town all reinforce the lore.
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Book one of the upstairs Victorian rooms in the restored 1877 hotel. The Jackson Suite is the room most often associated with the hotel's paranormal accounts. Reservations are coordinated through the affiliated Eureka Gold Country Inn.
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