Mason's Hall

Mason's Hall is one of the recurring stops on Richmond's major ghost-tour circuits, with documented narrative content from US Ghost Adventures' Richmond Ghost Tour (which maintains a dedicated 'Mason's House' page), Haunts of Richmond's Shadows of Shockoe walking tour, and RVA Ghosts' Sinister Secrets of Shockoe Bottom tour. The WTVR 2016 feature and the Wikipedia article on Mason's Hall further document the building's haunted reputation as part of its public profile. Across these sources the building's reputation is sourced primarily to its use as a War of 1812 hospital — tour content describes wounded soldiers who died on the upper floor and whose presences are said to linger.

US Ghost Adventures identifies four named entities at the hall, including 'Uncle Joshua,' described as the original caretaker, whose distinctive keychain rattle is reportedly heard in empty corridors. Locals on the surrounding Franklin Street block have reported strange lights in the upper windows late at night, even when the building is locked and dark, and disembodied conversation and arguments seeming to roll out from inside after midnight.

The 2016 WTVR feature recorded the Lodge's own measured response to the lore — the brothers acknowledged the stories without confirming or denying specific phenomena. Because the named entities (Uncle Joshua and others) are sourced only to ghost-tour materials and have not been independently corroborated against primary historical records, this entry treats the named-entity claims as tour-tradition rather than verified, while documenting the multiple independent ghost-tour operators carrying the lore.

Access to the building's interior is by Lodge open-house events or arranged ghost-tour stops only; HauntBound publishes Mason's Hall primarily as an exterior viewing site and a guided ghost-tour stop.