Historic Haunted Buildings in Virginia

Historic civic, commercial, and institutional buildings with reported ghost stories and verifiable local history.

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Editorial basis: cards use each listing's short description and are ordered by haunting level, then views. Approved community reports are counted separately.

Historic Haunted Buildings

Edgewood Plantation and Harrison's Mill

Charles City, VA

Edgewood Plantation near Charles City, Virginia, is an 1849 Gothic Revival house beside Harrison's Mill on the road between the James River great houses. Long run as a bed and breakfast, it is known for the legend of Lizzie Rowland, said to watch still from an upstairs window for a love lost to the Civil War.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

Historic Haunted Buildings

Colross

Princeton, VA

Colross is a Federal mansion with two lives: built in Alexandria, Virginia, around 1800 and steeped in that city's legends, it was dismantled and rebuilt in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1929 — carrying, in telling, its child-ghosts with it. It now serves a private school.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

Historic Haunted Buildings

Ludwell–Paradise House

Williamsburg, VA

The Ludwell–Paradise House on Duke of Gloucester Street was the first property Colonial Williamsburg restored — and its story belongs to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, the eccentric heiress whose sad decline ended in the public asylum. Telling keeps her bathing ghost gently.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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About historic haunted buildings in Virginia

Virginia's historic haunted buildings are compiled from local history, published folklore and visitor reports. Many are open to the public, and several offer tours or overnight stays.

Stories are recorded as accounts rather than established fact. Browse by city above, or open the full map to explore everything near you.