The Alex Johnson

South Dakota · United States · Hotel

A figure stands at the foot of the bed in one of the rooms. The top floor is closed and the staff have their own accounts of it.

This hotel at Rapid City, South Dakota is associated with a woman said to have been a manager here in the 1930s. How she died is told one way locally and is not documented, so nothing is asserted about it here.

In one of the rooms, a figure stands at the foot of the bed at night.

Several members of staff have reported activity on the top floor, which is currently closed off.

A closed floor in a working hotel is the strongest generator of stories a building can have. It is inaccessible, it is above everybody, and every member of staff knows it is there.

The Alex Johnson opened in 1928, built by a railway executive who wanted a hotel that honoured the Lakota, and the interior is full of that intention, executed with the assumptions of its era.

The hotel is open.

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Where is The Alex Johnson located?

The Alex Johnson is in South Dakota, United States.

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