Oregon loves a good ghost story, and few places deliver like McMenamins Kennedy School in Portland. This former elementary school turned hotel is charming by day, then unsettlingly lively after dark in the most curious ways. If you enjoy history with a side of goosebumps, you are in the right hallway. Step softly, keep an open mind, and see why guests whisper about what lingers after lights out.
Former Classrooms as Hotel Rooms
McMenamins Kennedy School reshapes memory the moment you unlock a classroom door and find a tidy hotel room where lessons once echoed.
Original chalkboards frame the bed like a quiet roll call, and the lingering scent of floor wax evokes a school day that never quite ended.
In Oregon, history sits close to the skin, and here it feels even closer when night pushes against the old windows…