The Crescent Hotel: Eureka Springs’ Grand 1886 Resort, School, and Fraudulent Cancer Hospital

The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, photographed around 1886 shortly after it opened

About 4 min readThe Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, opened in 1886 as a luxury resort, became a girls’ school, then a fraudulent cancer hospital run by a man with no medical training — a history that made it famous as ‘America’s Most Haunted Hotel.’