Cloyd/Thomas House Hotel

Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee's Cloyd Hotel, now known as the Thomas House Hotel was built in 1890 by Zack and Clay Cloyd. The hotel was designed to accommodate the increasing number of tourists to the area looking to take advantage of the nearby mineral springs. The original structure consisted of two-stories and was sheathed in weatherboard. This structure caught fire and was severely damaged in 1924. The current structure was built a few years later in 1927. The new structure was constructed of red brick, with two-stories. Following the decline of the mineral springs industry in 1952, the Thomas House Hotel and the Donoho and Counts Hotels remained open and continued to function as hotels. Perhaps the Thomas House Hotel is most well known for being allegedly haunted. In the early 2010s, the hotel was featured in ghost hunter TV shows. Allegedly the hotel is haunted by Sarah Cloyd, the daughter of one of the Cloyd brothers. Another ghost that allegedly haunts the hotel is a guest that allegedly fell off a horse and into a nearby stream. Ghost hunters claim all the activity is based in room #37. This has led to new life for the Thomas House and tourism becomes extremely popular around Halloween. In 1986, the Thomas House Hotel was nominated and listed in the National Register of Historic Places under the name Cloyd Hotel.

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