Haunted Hay-Adams Hotel Washington D.C

The Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington D.C.is consistently rated as one of the best hotels in the world by travel writers. The prestigious hotel enjoys an excellent location with a view of the White House and close proximity to many attractions in Washington D.C. A woman who used to live in the location that the hotel is situated on is reportedly haunting the fourth floor of the hotel

Ghost Stories

The Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington D.C. has a lingering guest in Clover Adams. Clover was the nickname of Marian Hooper Adams, who was married to Henry Adams.

Henry Adams was completing the building of his side by side mansion on Lafayette Square. The Adams property was adjacent to the property owned by John Hay's.

Clover Adams was artistic and a gifted photographer. She took her life in 1885, by ingesting a chemical she used for developing photographs. There was some whisper of murder, but no one knows for sure what all the facts of the death are. Her death remains a mystery. Clover suffered bouts of depression and had recently lost her beloved father, Dr. Hooper.

After Clover died, her husband, Henry, destroyed all of her papers, photographs, letters and diaries. Henry Adams was rumored to have had a long-time mistress. Adams did not mention Clover in his autobiography, "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams did commission a monument called "Grief", with a cloaked androgynous bronze figure on it. Clover and Henry Adams are both buried under the monument. The gravesites of Henry and Clover Adams are not marked with names, just the monument.

The hotel staff reports that Clover stays on the fourth floor of the Hay-Adam Hotel.. People who have experienced encounters with Clover agree that she is most active in the first two weeks of December, which is the anniversary of her suicide. Clover died on the fourth floor of the house that was still under construction at the time.