Good Goals For The Garnett House Hotel by Nathan

Welcome! I’m so excited because this will be the first article I’ve ever written for Paranormal Preservation! I decided to do this first article for a haunted location that I had just learned about, and think could use a little bit of help. Let me introduce you all to the historic Garnett House Hotel, a historic and haunted hotel located along 4th Avenue in the city of Garnett, Kansas. Not many of the haunted locations that I know are in Kansas, but after reading about this place and hearing stories about it being haunted, I really thought it seemed like the kind of place that deserves the honor for this article. Built in 1858 as the private residence of D.W. Houston, a Garnett resident named Hiram Tefft later opened the building as a hotel in the fall of that same year. This place became the first hotel in the city of Garnett and is also the city’s only surviving antebellum style structure. During the 1870s, the town of Garnett became a crossroads of both cowboys, citizens, and settlers heading west. Some of the hotel’s most famous guests include famous lawmen such as Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Wild Bill Hickock. I’m still reading up on the hauntings reported here, but one thing I read was that during the time known as “Bleeding Kansas”, it is said that the famous Abolitionist John Brown hid escaped slaves in the attic of the house around 1859 just prior to the American Civil War. Today, the hotel’s current owners are working to restore the building back to its original 1850s appearance, and even before all that it was already drawing ghost hunters from all around. After seeing this place and hearing that it was going to be restored, I decided to write this article to share my ideas on what I think should be done, which is one of the main reasons I created Paranormal Preservation. Now I know that they are already repainting the exterior walls white, so that’s already taken care of, I also heard that they might want to add shutters to the windows. I’d recommend adding either green or black shutters if the house is being painted white, I know from experience that some homes look a lot more historic in those colors. Also, I would be extra careful when restoring the porch, I believe that the porch is original and should not be removed. My best solution would be to have it fixed up, and carefully examine before doing so. I also noticed in some pictures that some of the rooms look like they have the original wallpaper on their walls, and I would recommend removing those either. Also keep the original wooden floors intact if they can be, and hang on to any furniture inside before deciding on selling it, some of those things could match the hotel’s time period perfectly. My ideas for gardens and landscapes are usually hard for me to explain, but all I can pretty much say is to try adding some bushes, and maybe even a couple trees. A nice wooden white sign with hotel’s name on it would look great in the front yard, that’s the final touch I’m going to recommend. I hope that once the Garnett House is fully restored, it will continue to bring ghost hunters from all around to its location, making another awesome haunted place to add to the list. I hope to someday even visit the place myself if I can, and even if it’s not to help with he restoration, I’d still like to be helpful in any way. Congratulations to the Garnett House Hotel for being the main topic of Paranormal Preservation‘s first original article, it’s really an honor. Don’t forget, you’ll be hearing about a lot more haunted locations when you visit Paranormal Preservation, it’s where the hauntings always have their highlights!