Victor Hotel, Colorado Postcard

The Victor Hotel is a four-story historic brick hotel in the mining town of Victor, Colorado. The hotel, built in 1899 by the town’s founders, the Woods brothers, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The hotel with its 20 rooms stands among several buildings that are part of Victor Downtown Historic District, which is also on the National Register of Historic Places. The lobby of the hotel features a restaurant. The hotel featured private bathrooms and electricity from the beginning. The bird cage elevator, the oldest operating elevator in Colorado, still operates. The hotel also served as a morgue in the winter when the ground was too frozen for burials. The hotel was a boarding house for miners. A miner named Eddy, who lived in room 301, called the elevator. The iron gates opened, but the elevator car had not arrived. Unaware, Eddy stepped inside the elevator shaft and fell to his death. Based on tales of Eddy's visitations, ghost hunters request to sleep in his room. Eddie has often been seen in the room, in the hallways, and in the elevator. Guests who stay in Room 301 also report hearing footsteps and other strange sounds that cannot be explained. Though the elevator is regularly inspected and maintained, it often tends to activate itself going up and down the shaft when no one is near it. Always stopping on the third floor, the elevator’s ghostly activity usually occurs around 3:00 a.m.