Nature Is Reclaiming This Vacant Hilltop Hotel In Harpers Ferry
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This historic hilltop hotel in Harpers Ferry is decaying in a hauntingly beautiful way. The property is explored via drone by YouTube channel "Your purkz." This place has seen its share of famous guests, but now sits vacant and forgotten on a cliff above the Shenandoah river. Read on to learn more about the Hilltop House Hotel and be sure to check out the video footage below.
The hotel opened in 1888 and closed in 2008.
It has 79 rooms and is perched on a scenic bluff over the Harpers Ferry National Park.
Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, and President Bill Clinton have all been guests at this historic hotel.
It was destroyed by fire in 1912 and 1919, but the hotel rebuilt using salvaged parts. Today, the Hilltop House Hotel is buckling almost in two.
Simply looking around this place is enough to give you serious chills.
This historic hotel must have seen so much in its time. Check out the footage below:
It's such a shame that beautiful properties like this one are allowed to become so overgrown and shabby. Were you ever a guest at the Hilltop House Hotel?
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