Overview
Ye College Inn was built in 1909 across from the University of Washington campus in Seattle, a half-timbered Tudor Revival hotel raised to lodge visitors to that year's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and it has anchored its corner of the University District ever since, with shops at street level and the College Inn Pub famously tucked into its basement. The pub is the heart of the building's ghost lore: generations of staff and regulars have told of 'Howard', a presence associated in the stories with a long-ago resident, blamed for footsteps across the empty floor above, glasses sliding or falling, taps and lights behaving oddly, cold drafts in the snug, and an occasional figure glimpsed after closing. The tellings are affectionate — Howard is toasted more than feared — and no documented event anchors them. These accounts should be presented as pub lore and staff reports rather than proven phenomena, and current opening details should be confirmed before publishing, as the building's tenants have changed over the years.