A full-service Main Line hotel in St. Davids, PA -- formerly the St. David's Inn -- with a long-told guest legend of a female apparition in Suite 309 who appears near the ceiling, descends the wall, and vanishes into the hall.
591 E Lancaster Avenue, St. Davids, PA 19087
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
The Radnor Hotel is an operating full-service hotel; costs reflect overnight room rates and on-site dining. There is no paranormal admission or ghost tour.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Modern full-service hotel with elevators and accessible public areas.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1960 · Built in 1960 and long operated as the St. David's Inn before becoming the Radnor Hotel · Longtime full-service hotel landmark on Philadelphia's Main Line · Documented in the Radnor Historical Society archives as the St. David's Inn
The Radnor Hotel occupies a prominent spot along Lancaster Avenue in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Main Line suburbs west of Philadelphia. The property was built in 1960 and for much of its history operated under the name the St. David's Inn before being rebranded as the Radnor Hotel.
Today it is a full-service hotel with roughly 167 guest rooms, including a number of suites, along with substantial event and meeting space and an on-site restaurant. It markets itself as a first-class Main Line hotel and is a familiar fixture in Radnor Township, Delaware County.
The Radnor Historical Society maintains photographs and archival records relating to the former St. David's Inn, documenting the building's mid-twentieth-century origins and its evolution into the modern Radnor Hotel. Beyond the building's straightforward hospitality history, detailed origins for its ghost story have not been independently documented.
Sources
According to ghost-lore collected by the Ghosts of Delaware County blog (October 2009) and corroborated by regional paranormal listings, the haunting at the Radnor Hotel is tied to a single room: Suite 309. The recurring account describes a female figure appearing near the ceiling above the master bed, then moving downward along the wall toward the door and disappearing into the hallway. The Ghosts of Delaware County blog — a dedicated regional paranormal documentation resource — specifically recorded this account and requested additional firsthand testimony from readers, indicating it was in active local circulation independent of any single submitted source.
Related reports describe guests glimpsing a presence in the hallway in the early-morning hours, and others say they have heard noises or conversation coming from the suite when the front desk confirmed it was unoccupied. A few accounts mention waking with unexplained marks.
The identity of the reported figure is unknown, and no historical event has been independently documented to explain the haunting. The paranormal tradition is presented as an unverified guest legend with regional circulation.
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Stay at the full-service Radnor Hotel on Philadelphia's Main Line, the former St. David's Inn, where guest lore centers on the reputedly haunted Suite 309. Booking is through standard hotel reservations.
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