History of a Haunted Bed and Breakfast

"Miss Molly's Bed and Breakfast." Tripadvisor.com. 2012. Web. 22 October 2012. www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g55857-d114951-Reviews-Miss_Molly_s_Bed_and_Breakfast-Fort_Worth_Texas.html

             The building which now houses Miss Molly's Bed and Breakfast has a rich history. According to Robert and Anne Wlodarski, the building was establised as a boarding house for visitors, cowboys and cattle salsemen in 1910 (71). During the 1920's it was managed by woman called Amelia Elmer and was called The Palace Rooms (Wlodarski and Wlodarski 71). These time periods cashed in the the cattle boom of the Old West. Henry Bailey writes that after the Palace Rooms went out of buiness, the building was renamed the Oasis (Miss Molly's). During the probation period that swept the nation; the Oasis answered the cry for alchol by being a speakeasy. Its next identity was that of the bordello called the Gayatte Hotel(Wlodarski and Wldorski 71). Two major meat packing companies were lured to Fort Worth by the  Cowboys and workers were attracted to the new thriving meat industry in Fort Worth (Wlodarski and Wlodarski 71). Miss Josie King saw an opportunity to cash in on this growing econmy (Wlodarsk and Wlodarsk 71).  Brian Righi writes that when the cattle trade faded; the Gayatte Hotel closed it doors and Miss King was never heard from again (28). For a time the building then became an art gallery but in its present state it has been renovated to be the historical bed and breakfast known as Miss Molly's (Wlodarski and Wlodarski 72).


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"Ghosts of Fort Worth." Righi, Brian. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2007. Print.
"Miss Molly's." Bailey, Henry. Missmollyshotel.com. Web. 22 October 2012. www.missmollyshotel.com/haunted.htm