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1925 Morgantown landmark hotel with a woman in white and the story of Room 314
127 High Street, Morgantown, WV 26505
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
Room rates vary by season and event; on-site dining. Reserve through the hotel's website.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Renovated historic hotel with elevators and modern accessibility features
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1925 · Named for city founder Zackquill Morgan · National Register of Historic Places · 1920s downtown hotel architecture
Hotel Morgan opened in 1925 as a centerpiece of downtown Morgantown, taking its name from Zackquill Morgan, the city's founder, at the suggestion of the local historical society. For nearly a century it has been one of the most recognizable buildings on High Street, its upper floors visible across the downtown skyline.
The hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Over the decades it operated through changing ownership and brands, and in 2020 it underwent a full renovation that paired the original 1925 character with updated rooms and amenities. The property now runs as a Wyndham hotel offering 81 rooms and two suites, with an on-site restaurant and the usual modern conveniences.
Among the building's original features was an indoor swimming pool, since closed. Several of the hotel's enduring stories center on that pool area and on specific upper floors. Local accounts reference deaths in the building over its long history, including a drowning, and these accounts form the backbone of the hotel's reputation as a haunted location. The hotel appears as a stop on Morgantown's ghost tour, where its history and its lore are presented together.
Sources
The most frequently repeated story at Hotel Morgan is that of a woman in white, reported near the area of the hotel's former indoor swimming pool. The pool has been closed for years, but the figure remains the centerpiece of the building's paranormal reputation, and local accounts tie her to a drowning said to have occurred there.
The fifth floor draws its own reports of unusual activity, which some accounts connect to a former long-term resident. A separate story attaches to Room 314, where guests have described a sense of sadness and a feeling of not being alone, framed in local lore around the death of a young girl in the room.
Hotel Morgan is included as a stop on the Morgantown ghost tour, and it has been the subject of regional paranormal write-ups and a local investigation that weighs the stories against the building's documented history. The reports are anecdotal and unverified, and no documented investigation has established a confirmed cause. What sustains the hotel's reputation is the combination of a prominent, century-old building and a small set of stories that have been retold consistently enough to become part of Morgantown's downtown folklore.
Notable Entities
Book a room at Hotel Morgan, the 1925 High Street landmark named for Morgantown founder Zackquill Morgan. Guests and staff have long associated the building with a woman in white near the site of the old indoor pool, activity on the fifth floor, and a story attached to Room 314. The hotel was fully renovated in 2020 and operates as a Wyndham property.
The hotel's restaurant is open to the public. Diners can take in the restored 1925 interior of one of Morgantown's most recognizable buildings.
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