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Medical Arts Building

4 published accounts
Historic site, HotelAlamo Plaza Historic District, San Antonio
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Open to the public

The building operates as a hotel. Guest floors, rooms and staff areas are for registered guests and employees; do not enter without permission.

What people recorded here

4 published accounts, each credited to its source

The Medical Arts Building is a 13-story Gothic revival tower on Alamo Plaza in downtown San Antonio, built in 1924 to house doctors' offices and a hospital and operating since 1984 as the Emily Morgan Hotel 1. Texas Public Radio reported hotel managers relaying guest accounts of faucets running on the 12th floor, an antiseptic smell on the 14th, and a nurse pushing a gurney down a hallway 2. Historic Hotels of America placed it on its 2021 list of the Top 25 Most Haunted American Hotels 2. Visitors commonly describe water turning itself on in guest bathrooms, hospital smells on the upper floors, and figures in nurses' uniforms seen briefly in corridors.

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Published accounts 4

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Texas Public Radio4 accounts · Oct 29, 2021

Siefken told Texas Public Radio that the 14th floor, where surgeries were once performed, carries a smell he compared to antiseptic bandages, and that the smell has persisted through renovations.

Phantom smell

14th floor

Sales manager Deborah McNabb told Texas Public Radio that she returned to her room to find the bathtub half full of bright blue water. She said the key card records showed hers was the only key used to enter the room.

Objects moved

Guest room bathroom

According to Texas Public Radio, Siefken said guests have opened their room doors and seen a nurse pushing a rickety gurney down the hallway.

Apparition

Guest room hallways

Texas Public Radio reported that general manager Kole Siefken described guests on the 12th floor calling the front desk because every bathroom faucet was running. He said the water stopped and the bathroom was dry by the time they reached the doorway.

Objects moved

12th floor guest bathrooms