The Award-Winning 13th Floor Haunted House Returns This Friday For Its Tenth Season In Chicago
The legendary haunted house is back from the grave marking a decade of blood-curdling experiences in Chicago.
Looking for a real thrill this Halloween season? The world-famous 13th Floor Haunted House will reopen to the public to add some fuel to your nightmares this coming weekend.
Remember when haunted houses were simply makeshift stages at your neighbor’s? Some of the parents would string up a few cotton cobwebs, black curtains, and maybe one of the dads would dress up as a vampire and do that one laugh? Well, those days are long gone. Not only is the world itself a more terrifying place to be, but haunted houses have gone to hell and back to scare the absolute bejesus out of you.
Rated as one of the Top 5 Haunted Houses in the U.S.A. by USA Today, 13 th Floor Haunted House Chicago officially returns from the grave on Friday for its terrifying tenth season in Chicagoland.
Set amongst forty-thousand square feet of fun at 5050 River Road in Schiller Park near the Rosemont entertainment district, this year features two all-new, scary-as-hell exhibits entitled The Deadlands and Depths of Darkness.
The first of these, The Deadlands , places guests in a post-apocalyptic world that has been ravaged by a devastating virus that causes menacing mutations to roam free according to the 13th Floor Haunted House website .
“The Hades Corporation, responsible for both the virus and its antidote, takes action to eliminate these mutants and capture the Alpha Infected”, it reads. “Driven by a relentless determination, you set out on a mission to uncover the truth and expose the Hades Corporation’s culpability. In a world where survival depends on revealing the truth, the pressing question remains: who will believe it and does it really matter?”
The second experience Depths of Darkness takes place “amidst a dreadful thunderstorm night” in which “an ancient deep-sea nightmare has stirred from slumber .”
As an eerie song resonates from the sea inhabitants of a nearby small village start displaying peculiar behavior becoming seemingly possessed by an otherworldly force and “inviting others to partake in eternal suffering.”
As with previous seasons, there will be plenty of thrills, frights, a carnival-like midway of games, photo opportunities, foods, and beverages.
Admission into both shows is included in general admission which ranges from $19.99 to $32.99 depending on dates and fast passes can be procured for an extra $10.
The haunting season at 13 th Floor Chicago will run on select dates until Sunday, November 5, 2023.
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The 13th Floor Haunted House is located at 5050 RIVER RD., SCHILLER PARK, IL 60176.
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Washington is one of the most beautiful states in North America, thanks to abundant natural lakes, lush forests, and historical landmarks. However, lurking behind that beauty is a much darker side involving some particularly creepy paranormal hotspots!
Let’s look a bit closer at the most haunted places in Washington State…
1. Campbell House, Spokane
Campbell House is one of Washington’s most well-known historical landmarks. It was designed and built by Kirtland K Cutter in 1898 and was first owned by Amasa Basaliel Campbell.
There is a very sad history attached to the house. In the early 1900s, 3 of the Campbell children were murdered by a burglar who also kidnapped the fourth child.
The child was never returned. With such a tragic past, it is hardly surprising that the Campbell House is one of the most haunted houses in Washington.
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Visitors describe feeling a very unsettling feeling on entering the house and are often overcome with dread.
A portrait of Amasa Basaliel Campbell in the house is said to follow visitors with its eyes as they wander the house – perhaps looking to see if the kidnapper ever returns.
2. Black Diamond Cemetery
The fact that Black Diamond Cemetery is a burial ground makes it a little creepy. Still, when you add that this is one of the most haunted locations in Washington, it kicks the spook factor up a few notches!
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It has been said that visitors have heard whistling and voices when nobody else is around. There have also been reports of the swinging lanterns of dead coal miners seen on foggy nights.
3. University Heights Center, Seattle
University Heights in Seattle was once a school but has since been converted into a community center. It is also considered one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, thanks to the spirit of a little boy inhabiting it.
The youngster is believed to have been a student at University Heights when it was still operating as a school, and it seems like she never left.
He is often seen and heard playing in the halls. However, he certainly does not seem to be alone in the building since many visitors, staff, and paranormal investigators have all said they have heard a small group of children laughing and playing in the building.
At least the little boy doesn’t seem to be lonely!
4. Old City Hall, Tacoma
Tacoma Old City Hall has been at the center of various reports of hauntings since the mid-seventies.
According to local town records, the police were called to the old building on many occasions starting in 1974 to investigate a variety of different disturbances, including lights going on and off, noises coming from inside, fire alarms sounding, and even the intruder alarms being triggered.
Those reporting the disturbances believed that someone was breaking in, but on each occasion, the police could find no evidence that anyone had even been inside.
There were no signs of forced entry, nothing had been disturbed, and there was no logical explanation for the disturbances!
5. Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Vancouver
Fort Vancouver dates back to the 19 th century, but before that, it served as a fur-trading outpost. It stands on the Columbia River and is located partly in Washington and partly in Oregon.
Like so many other old and ruined buildings, Fort Vancouver has its fair share of secrets hidden within its wall.
One of the most active buildings is said to be the Grant House Art Center, which sits among the houses in Officers’ Row.
Some of the strange phenomena reported there include phones ringing when they are completely unplugged and doors opening or closing by themselves.
There is one particular ghost whom staff members have nicknamed ‘Sully’ who likes to sit in the cafe drinking coffee!
6. Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham
Mount Baker Theatre opened in Bellingham in 1927, and ever since it opened its doors, the building seems to have been plagued by ghosts!
Some of the reports recorded here include unexplained noises, cold spots, strange disembodied voices, balls of light, and even the odd apparition.
There is a resident ghost of a young woman named Judy, and for years, the theatre has had reports of her “developing crushes” on male projectionists and ushers at the theatre. When she picks a crush, they’ll hear their names called across the stage, or they’ll feel ghostly touches on their backs and shoulders.
And she’s just one of 4 ghosts that paranormal investigators have discovered there!
With all of this strange paranormal activity going on, it is not difficult to see why Mount Baker Theatre is considered to be one of the most haunted places in Washington State!
7. Oxford Saloon, Snohomish
The Oxford Saloon in Snohomish is considered one of the most haunted places in Washington state.
Many different paranormal investigators have investigated it, and many of them have picked up some clear examples of electronic voice phenomena.
The saloon was built in 1900 but has been modified considerably. It has seen more than its fair share of violence over the years – especially down in the basement and the men’s card room.
One of the most documented murders here is the death of a Policeman named Henry, who was a regular at the saloon and who may even have worked as a bouncer on his days off.
He is believed to be one of the many spirits haunting the Oxford Saloon today. He most often appears on the basement stairs but is also known to pinch women in the ladies’ restroom!
On the upper floors, there are said to be three more ghosts – a man in a bowler hat and two female spirits.
One of these ladies is a madam known as Kathleen, and she is described as an older woman dressed in purple with matching purple bows.
The other lady is a girl named Amelia, who was forced into prostitution by Kathleen and who was found dead in a closet on the property.
8. Kells Irish Pub, Seattle
Once known as the Butterworth Building, this former mortuary is now a popular bar called Kell’s Irish Pub.
It is not only one of the most haunted locations in Seattle , it’s considered to be the most haunted pub in North America and has even been the focus of a couple of different paranormal television shows.
A large number of bodies have passed through the mortuary thanks to disease epidemics, mining accidents, and violent crime, and that has certainly left its mark on the property.
Some unexplained activity documented here includes mirrors spontaneously shattering for no apparent reason, plaster falling from the walls, glasses being swiped off of surfaces by unseen hands, and disembodied voices.
The owner also claims to have seen an apparition sitting at the end of the bar, which he described as a mixed-race man with very thin hands and wearing a suit jacket.
Interestingly, some of the bodies that passed through the mortuary here would have been the victims of our next haunted location – Starvation Heights Sanatarium.
9. Starvation Heights Sanitarium, Olalla
Starvation Heights Sanitarium was operated by Dr. Linda Hazzard and her husband Sam, but the doctor used a very strange treatment method – starvation!
Needless to say, this was not an effective treatment, and a large number of her patients died.
These bodies were incinerated within the sanitarium to cover up the mistreatment while Dr. Hazzard maintained her public image as a strong female leader.
However, behind the scenes, she was evil and greedy. Today, the foundation of the building and the incinerator are all that remains.
Well, apart from the spirits of former patients that are said to be roaming the ruins, that is!
10. Northern State Mental Hospital, Sedro-Woolley
At one time, as many as 2000 patients lived in the Northern State Mental Hospital. A large percentage of those patients would also have died in the building due to a variety of different causes.
Some would have passed from natural causes, but far more died as a direct result of strenuous physical labor, electroshock therapy treatments gone too far, botched lobotomies, complications during forced sterilization, and some were just straight out murdered.
It is no great surprise that with so much death and despair linked to the property, it has become one of the most haunted places in the state.
There have been various reports of paranormal activity, including one of the most common sightings – an apparition of a nurse pushing a male patient in a wheelchair.
Other common reports include shadow figures, disembodied screams, and cold spots.
11. Historic Everett Theatre, Everett
Located in the historic mill town of Everett, just 25 miles north of Seattle, lies the Historic Everett Theatre. Opening in 1901, then known as the Everett Opera House, it hosted many of the biggest names in early 20th-century entertainment, such as the Marx Brothers, Fatty Arbuckle, and George Cohan.
With over 120 years of history, it wasn’t until 1993, during renovations, that supernatural reports started to ramp up.
While the work was going on, people would often experience the feeling of being watched, and doors would mysteriously not shut.
In one instance, a staff member was on his way out of the projection room when the door wouldn’t close. The more force he used, the more resistance there was then suddenly, the door burst open, hitting him in the chest and knocking him to the floor.
Whoever haunts here certainly seems to like the projection room, as on another occasion, an employee witnessed a sweater lift off the floor and float before being thrown back down. In another instance, an employee was working on the film projector when he suddenly felt he was being watched. Looking up he saw what he described as a man from his waist up looking at him through the projection window, disappearing moments later.
12. Sorrento Hotel, Seattle
In the heart of Seattle, the Hotel Sorrento stands as an architectural enigma. Opened in 1909, its distinct Italian design and eerie ambiance have made it a landmark, not just for its luxury but for its otherworldly resident, Alice B. Toklas.
Despite its financial tumults and ownership changes, the hotel, adorned with Rookwood tiles and grand fireplaces, has survived over a century, thanks to the Malone family’s 1980s restoration efforts.
Related: Haunted Hotels in Washington State
However, it’s the spectral presence of Alice B. Toklas that truly sets the Hotel Sorrento apart, marking it as one of the most haunted locations in Seattle and, indeed, the nation.
Known for her pioneering role in cannabis cuisine, Toklas’ ghostly figure, dressed in monochrome, is often sighted roaming near room 408 or unsettling the Dunbar Room, where drinks mysteriously stir themselves.
While the reasons behind her haunting remain a mystery, the hotel embraces her spirit, even celebrating her legacy with themed dinners and tours, making the Hotel Sorrento a haven for those who seek a brush with history and the paranormal.
13. St. Ignatius Hospital, Colfax
Founded in 1893 by the Sisters of Charity, St. Ignatius Hospital in Colfax was once a beacon of healthcare, its walls echoing with the bustle of nursing students and patients. Yet, as the years wore on and modernity outpaced its facilities, the hospital closed its doors, leaving behind a shell of memories—perhaps something more.
Today, St. Ignatius is not just an edifice needing preservation; it’s a hotbed for paranormal intrigue. Witnesses recount unsettling encounters with the spectral remnants of its past, like the tormented spirit of a railroad worker, crushed and forever bound to the site of his untimely demise.
Over 15,000 visitors, armed with scientific equipment, have sought to pierce the veil of the afterlife here, often leaving with stories of inexplicable voices and ghostly caresses in the dead of night. As St. Ignatius sits, its future uncertain, the echoes of its storied past continue to resonate, inviting the brave to explore the mysteries locked within its aging walls.
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Top 13 places in Russia where you may face a ghost
1. Kusovnikov House in Moscow
In the 19 th century house № 17 on Myasnitskaya street in central Moscow was inhabited by a rich, but very greedy couple – Pyotr and Sofya Kusovnikov, who scrimped on almost everything. Extremely suspicious, they used to hide money from their servants in different places. Once they hid some in the fireplace, but the janitor accidentally burned it when lighting the fire. When she found out, Sofya died instantly of a broken heart, her husband passed away a little later. Since then, the ghost of a hunched old man in a coat has routinely appeared on the street near the house – this is Pyotr Kusovnikov mourning his lost money.
2. Sokol metro station
During WWI, not far from the modern Sokol station of the Moscow metro, a cemetery for fallen soldiers was located. In 1918, mass executions of White officers and priests by the Reds were held there. All this led to the appearance of ghosts in the dark tunnels of the station. Early in the morning diaphanous figures with festering wounds can be seen there.
3. St. Michael’s Castle in St. Petersburg
This castle was a royal residence built by order of Tsar Paul I. On March 21, 1801, he was killed there by a group of conspirators. It is considered that the restless spirit of the tsar was unable to leave the castle. It appears there in the corridors with a burning candle in its hand.
4. Znamenskaya Tower in Yaroslavl
During the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), a group of White troops held positions in the Volkovsky theater in Yaroslavl. The Red commissar in command of the siege promised to spare their lives. However, he lied and all the Whites were executed at the Znamenskaya Tower. Since then, the ghost of the commissar who didn’t keep his promise has been seen at the place of his crime.
5. Igumnov House in Moscow
The house at 43 Bolshaya Yakimanka Street in Moscow, also known as “Igumnov House,” serves today as the residence of the French ambassador. It was built at the request of the industrialist Nikolay Igumnov in the late 19 th century. He settled his young mistress here, but one day caught her with a lover. The lover was kicked out, but the girl was never seen again. It is believed that the outraged Igumnov bricked her up in a wall. During Soviet times, people often saw the ghost of a young girl walking through the walls with deep, plaintive sighs.
6. House of Rasputin in St. Petersburg
The flat on the second floor at 64 Gorokhovaya street in St. Petersburg is today a usual residential apartment. However, in the early 20th century it was home to one of the most mystical figures in Russian history – Grigory Rasputin. His ghost sometimes appears here, scaring inhabitants with its clunking steps and grunting in dark corners.
7. House on the Embankment
This house at 2 Serafimovicha Street, simply known as “House on Embankment,” is among the most famous in the Russian capital, known as the place of residence for the Soviet crème de la crème : writers, artists, actors, generals, athletes. However, it also has a dark history. During the Great Purge, a campaign of political repressions in the USSR, dozens of the house’s inhabitants were arrested and executed. Today, the house is full of the ghosts of those victims, who sometimes appear in their old dwelling place.
8. Tower of the old hospital in Ryazan
Among the high-rise modern buildings at 15 Gorky Street in Ryazan is an old tower – all that remains of the old hospital. At night, a lonely dark figure can be seen walking in this tower. This is the ghost of Alexander Smitten, who administered the hospital more than a century ago.
9. Griboyedov Canal in St. Petersburg
During a misty night in March, one can see the ghost of a young girl near the Griboyedov Canal in St. Petersburg. Her face is blue because of asphyxiation, and there is a big red mark on her neck caused by a rope. This is famous revolutionary Sophia Perovskaya, who assassinated Tsar Alexander II and was hanged for her deed. To meet this ghost is a bad omen, and can cost nocturnal pedestrians their lives.
10. Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
There is a legend that when the Kremlin in Nizhny Novgorod was being built, the constructors were unable to finish one of the towers. It kept falling down. In the end, they decided to make a sacrifice and to build the tower on the blood of the first person who passed by. It happened to be a pregnant woman hurrying to the river for water. She was seized and bricked up in the tower alive. The ghost of a pale woman holding a baby has appeared near this place ever since.
11. Oldenburg Palace near Voronezh
Built in the late 19th century, the palace belonged to Princess Eugenia of Leuchtenberg. Today her ghost rises from the deep casemates of the palace to wander through its rooms and corridors. There is also another ghost there, much older — the ghost of a young peasant girl. It is even said that Princess Eugenia saw it when she was alive.
12. Stalin’s country house near Sochi
Stalin’s ghost can be seen at his country house, located today within the Green Groove hotel near Sochi. The “father of the nations” walks in his white jacket, smoking his trademark pipe.
13. Psychiatric hospital near Nizhny Novgorod
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The house on King Road: A look at the Idaho home where four students were killed
- SALLY KRUTZIG, KEVIN FIXLER Idaho Statesman (TNS)
- Dec 27, 2022
MOSCOW, Idaho — At 1122 King Road in Moscow sits a gray six-bedroom, three-bathroom house that continues to be the source of significant national attention.
Known as a student rental, the home's most recent tenants were a group of six University of Idaho undergraduates who signed a 12-month lease that began on June 5, according to the property management firm that oversees the home.
Three of the student renters would not live to see the end of their lease.
It's been six weeks since four students were murdered near the University of Idaho and we're still no closer to learning what happened that night.
The tenants were Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen, as well as an unnamed sixth person on the lease.
In the early morning hours of Sunday, Nov. 13, Mogen, Goncalves, Kernodle and Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, were stabbed to death in the house. Police found two bodies on the second floor and two bodies on the third floor, but have not released which victims were discovered where.
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Mortensen and Funke were on the first floor of the home and went unharmed. Police have said they were not involved in the killings.
Six weeks have passed, and law enforcement still has not named a suspect in the quadruple homicide.
The Idaho Statesman used photos from rental listings and documents submitted by former owners to the city of Moscow to explore the layout of the King Road house. Depictions of the floors are approximations created by the Statesman based on that information.
Greek members rent out home
Just north of the home is the university's new Greek Row, where many fraternity and sorority activities take place. That proximity meant the area was particularly popular among those involved in U of I Greek life.
About 1,600 students are members of the school's fraternities and sororities. That total represents 23% of the roughly 7,000 undergraduate students enrolled in fall 2022 at the Moscow campus, according to university spokespeople.
Goncalves was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority, while Mogen and Kernodle were members of Pi Beta Phi. Funke is a member of Pi Phi as well, and identified Mogen as her "big sister" in a letter she wrote that was read at a Dec. 2 memorial. Mortensen also appears in multiple photos reviewed by the Statesman, including with Funke, on the sorority's Facebook page, wearing clothing with Pi Phi insignia.
Many renters in the area around King Road were overflow from the nearby fraternities and sororities, said Merida McClanahan, supervisor at Team Idaho Real Estate & Property Management.
"We have a lot of university students as our tenants and we've got quite a few of the properties down there on King Road," McClanahan told the Statesman in a phone interview. "It's a tight-knit community. They're on the back side of campus right across the street from Greek Row, and those kids cycle in and out."
The listed owner of the King Road property didn't return email and phone messages from the Statesman.
David Janssen, 32, a former U of I graduate student who said he's a five-year tenant of an apartment complex adjacent to the rental home, confirmed that fraternity and sorority members appear to dominate the tightly packed neighborhood.
The surrounding Greek life environment contributed to what those familiar with the neighborhood, including Janssen, described in interviews with the Statesman as a loud party culture in the conjoined dead-end streets of King and Queen roads.
"This has always been a party place since I've lived here — always," said Sean Hundley, 34, a nearly lifelong Moscow resident, and maintenance person for the adjacent apartment complex.
The tenants of the King Road house had received three noise complaints for loud music since August, according to a Statesman review of Moscow police reports. Two came on the same night in early September from separate neighbors in two single-family homes, each about a quarter-mile away, on the street located above the valley where the King Road house sits.
Goncalves received a warning from police for the first noise complaint in August. Mogen and Kernodle each received law enforcement warnings from the two complaints in September, according to the police reports.
In recently released Moscow police body-cam footage posted on YouTube, officers were shown trying to track down a resident of the home after the first of the September noise complaints.
"I guarantee you they're associated with a sorority," Moscow Police Sgt. Dustin Blaker said in the footage, to a male student who didn't live at the home. "As many of them are living here, it's an off-campus sorority house."
The King Road home's six bedrooms had at one time been rented as separate apartments, according to McClanahan, with the property management firm.
"Primarily for the last 12 years, it has been rented as one unit as a single-family home," McClanahan said.
The house originally had two floors, but an owner requested to add the lowest floor in 2000, according to Moscow city permits. Built into a hillside, the house has one exterior door on each floor.
The home is 3,120 square feet, according to Zillow. The Latah County Assessor's Office assessed its value at $343,848 in August.
The first floor
All of the tenants except the sixth unnamed person on the lease, who police said had moved out before the start of the school year, were home at the time of the Nov. 13 attack. The five housemates, along with Chapin, were all back at the King Road house by 1:56 a.m., police said. Call records made by Mogen and Goncalves indicated the attack happened sometime after they placed a phone call at 2:52 a.m., according to The New York Times.
The roommates on the first floor, Mortensen and Funke, likely were asleep until later that morning, according to police.
Attempts by the Statesman to reach Funke and Mortensen have been unsuccessful.
At 11:58 a.m., a 911 call was made from inside the house on one of the surviving roommates' cellphones, according to police. The roommates summoned friends to the house because they believed one of the victims on the second floor had passed out and was not waking up. Multiple people spoke with the 911 dispatcher before officers arrived, police said.
Authorities have declined to release the 911 recording, citing an ongoing investigation.
On social media, many have expressed disbelief that Mortensen and Funke would not have woken up during the killings. However, former first-floor tenant Ryan Augusta told Fox News that he typically "heard nothing" from the second and third floors when he lived there in 2019. Reached by the Statesman, Augusta said he stood by his prior statement.
City records and photos from online rental listings indicate the first floor has two bedrooms that open into a shared hallway. The hallway also leads to a bathroom and a stairway that goes to the second floor.
A door between the bedrooms opens to the property's driveway.
The second floor
The second floor of the home includes a living room, two bedrooms, a bathroom and a kitchen. This floor can be accessed from the outside through a sliding glass door between the porch and the kitchen.
This floor has two separate staircases, one that leads to the first floor and one to the third floor.
Kernodle lived on the second floor, her mother, Cara Northington, said in an interview this month with NewsNation. Chapin's mother, Stacy Chapin, previously confirmed to the Statesman that her son spent the night at his girlfriend's house.
The third floor
The third floor of the home includes a bathroom and two bedrooms — one of which has a balcony with a sliding glass door. This floor can be accessed only by the staircase from the second floor.
Goncalves' father, Steve Goncalves, said his daughter and Mogen lived on the third floor, according to Fox News. He said he believes that the two women, close friends since childhood, both slept in Mogen's room the night of the killings.
Two items — a pair of pink boots frequently worn by Mogen in social media photos and a decorative letter M— could be seen in the window of bedroom E following the homicides. Goncalves posted social media videos from bedroom F.
Goncalves had a dog named Murphy who was home at the time of the attack, police said. Officers found the dog in a room where the crimes were not committed, but do not know where he was at the time of the killings, according to a news release. Police found no evidence on the dog, they said.
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Does Portland Need a Soho House? (Does It Even Want One?)
The status-conscious social club has landed in the Pacific Northwest’s crunchiest city. Some locals wonder: Why?
By Callie Holtermann
Reporting from Portland, Ore.
In a very particular corner of Portland, Ore., there is a dive bar whose vending machine dispenses tarot cards and a dessert joint with a white-water kayak in its bathroom. On a nearby block, for vaguely environmental reasons, a dozen goats used to roam free .
The goats are gone now, replaced by an apartment complex with a Chipotle. Many Portland residents have grown to expect this kind of development; what they were not expecting was a Soho House.
That London-based chain of exclusive members’ clubs , known as a posh hangout for jet-setters and celebrities, will open a new outpost this week in the gentrifying stretch of Portland known as the Central Eastside. Its arrival introduces a rooftop pool, a two-story gym and a restaurant serving steelhead tartare to a freshly renovated industrial building that once housed one of the city’s scrappy artist cooperatives.
Members who apply and are accepted to the Portland club will pay $1,950 a year for access to its amenities; $4,500 a year also grants entry to Soho House locations in London, New York, Paris and Los Angeles.
Portland’s hipster stereotype was never as total as “Portlandia”-style caricature made it seem: The city has a growing population of well-heeled professionals who work at Nike or for the creative agency Wieden+Kennedy, rent luxury apartments in the Pearl District and stop for martinis at the 20th-floor bar of the new Ritz-Carlton downtown. Soho House, which has recently been fending off suggestions of financial precarity, is most likely banking on this crowd to join.
Still, the apparent friction between Soho House’s you-can’t-sit-with-us brand and Portland’s reputation for crunchy eccentricity has made the club a kind of inkblot test for locals’ opinions on the city’s evolving identity.
Some consider Soho House’s elite cachet a win for Portland, especially after the city weathered high-profile store closures amid the pandemic and a year of protests . But less enthusiastic residents see the club as mismatched with the city’s gleefully offbeat texture, and an uneasy fit for a neighborhood experiencing some of the city’s widely publicized struggles with homelessness and fentanyl addiction .
“My first thought was: really odd move,” said Connor Bowlan, 34, a Portland native and a founder of a nonprofit arts and entrepreneurship center. “It’s kind of the antithesis of the culture here.”
In fact, complaining about things like Soho House has long been a part of Portland’s identity, Mr. Bowlan said. In front of some other locals, he is a little embarrassed to say he might join. “Largely the reaction is like, they think of it as a Cheesecake Factory with a $2,000-a-year subscription,” he said.
From Art Cooperative to Members-Only
With the new club, the company says it has created a luxurious space that strives to be as Portland as possible — or at least as Portland as a Soho House can be.
The club’s interior is a series of lounge and work spaces accented with veiny marble and softened by plush throw pillows. Emerald-colored ceramic tiles come from a nearby tile maker, Pratt + Larson, and the second-floor restaurant’s menu was developed by Matt Sigler, a chef known for the celebrated Portland restaurant Renata.
Andrew Carnie, Soho House’s chief executive, said on a video call from London that the club was a natural fit for Portland in part because of the city’s creative industries. What, exactly, does “creative” mean in this context? Mr. Carnie said chefs, tech workers, business owners and employees at Nike might all fit the bill. “We’re trying to reach a crowd that’s creative in their souls and like-minded,” he said.
Some of the city’s artists bristle at the club fashioning itself as a home for an artistic community, given the building’s history.
The club occupies the century-old Troy Laundry Building, which was constructed as an industrial facility for the laundry company. Around 1980 it was rented by a collective of artists that remained there for more than three decades.
When the building sold for nearly $6 million in 2016 to a buyer unaffiliated with Soho House, most members of the cooperative were displaced .
Sean McGonigal, 72, a leather restoration worker and one of the cooperative’s founders, remembered it as a slightly shabby but vibrant community that welcomed hundreds of artists over the years and hosted rowdy Halloween parties. Mr. McGonigal and Joanne Radmilovich Kollman, 63, a painter and teacher who also worked in the cooperative, could not afford to continue renting space there; they now work out of her home a 15-minute drive east.
Soho House is leasing the building from AJ Capital, a real estate development company that bought the Portland property in 2019 for $15.6 million. (The company declined to share the length of its current lease.)
Both artists from the cooperative saw a bitter irony in Soho House’s efforts to position itself as a creative space, given that many artists in the city would be unable to afford it — not to mention those who had already been forced out of the very same building.
“If the Troy building is being used as a private nightclub for exclusivity and fake creativity, it’s not going to work,” Mr. McGonigal said. He added that he believed the building was haunted.
Soho House says it has prioritized reflecting the city’s artists in its more than 140-piece art collection, whose works mostly come from locals. Anakena Paddon, the art collection manager for the Portland location and other clubs, said she was aware of the artists’ cooperative that had been in the building but that Soho House didn’t “knowingly go back and try to track down all the original tenants.”
“From what I understand it was a lot of craftspeople, a lot of makers,” Ms. Paddon said. “There were a lot of different practices happening there, not all of which would be appropriate for the art collection.”
“I think of all the things that big, gorgeous building could have become,” she said. “It’s kind of special that it’s remained a space for creatives, albeit in a very different existence.”
Mr. McGonigal and Ms. Radmilovich Kollman said they had not been contacted by Soho House.
The building displays work by more than 60 artists, including Salomée Souag, who is creating a pastel mural for the building’s second floor, and Yuyang Zhang, whose collages mix graphics from Chinese propaganda posters with screenshots of Tinder notifications. Most artists were given memberships and Soho House credit in exchange for their pieces, although some were paid commissions for new work.
“I’m optimistic,” Ms. Souag said. She was impressed by the number of artists and activists that Ms. Paddon had been in touch with. “She’s inviting us in these walls, which usually wouldn’t be accessible.”
Julian Gaines , who contributed a painting modeled on a Jet Magazine cover, saw his work’s inclusion as a way to ensure Black people would see themselves on the walls of a club in a city where some seven out of 10 residents are white .
Mr. Gaines said he believed that Soho House would serve as a “creative catalyst” that could draw new talent to Portland. He convinced his dermatologist to apply.
Hard Looks From Wall Street (and the New Neighbors)
Soho House Portland is the company’s first location in the Pacific Northwest, and it is part of the company’s aggressive expansion effort that has lately come under scrutiny.
Since its founding in 1995, the company has faced growing criticism that it is overrun by corporate types. The company’s stock tumbled last month after a report from GlassHouse Research , a short seller, argued that its push to establish footholds outside the biggest, wealthiest cities was harming the company’s bottom line.
Soho House said in a statement that the GlassHouse report “contains factual inaccuracies, analytical errors and false and misleading statements,” and that its membership growth was strong. But the company, whose share price has dropped since it went public in 2021, added that an independent committee’s evaluations could result in taking the company private.
The jump to the Pacific Northwest was made easier for Soho House by a Trump-era tax break: According to a spokeswoman for AJ Capital, the purchase of the Troy Laundry Property benefited from being in a so-called Opportunity Zone.
The federal designation, which was intended to encourage development in “ economically distressed ” neighborhoods, has been criticized for enriching the wealthy . The program was also leveraged by the glitzy Ritz-Carlton in downtown Portland .
Business leaders in Portland still see Soho House’s reputation as a positive for the city. Portland’s economy was hit hard by pandemic lockdowns and by protests after the murder of George Floyd, which attracted forceful federal crackdowns and resulted in a national narrative of violence and chaos in the city. REI, Nike and Walmart closed stores.
Mayor Ted Wheeler described the new Soho House in an email as “an investment in the future of our city.”
Andrew Hoan, the president and chief executive of the Portland Metro Chamber, believes the Soho House and the Ritz-Carlton signal to other companies that Portland has rebounded from the pandemic and is in a moment of generational change. “We’re growing up to be a big city,” he said, “and big cities have big, institutional brands like this.”
But Portland wouldn’t be Portland without vigorous complaints about those brands, Mr. Hoan added.
To Paul Messersmith-Glavin, 59, an acupuncturist and board member of the Social Justice Action Center, a nonprofit that operates out of a building near Soho House, the club is a particularly galling example of the gentrification that has driven up rents and erased much of the countercultural spirit that he said makes the city special.
Mr. Messersmith-Glavin said he was unconvinced that the club would do anything for residents of Portland who aren’t wealthy. “There’s so many people on the streets, and people just barely getting by,” he said. “It’s a little ostentatious to open up a social club.”
Connor Smith, 31, an owner of Workers Tap, a bar nearby, said he was worried about a clash between Soho House and the neighborhood’s homeless population. “There’s a lot of houseless camps, and I’m concerned that they will be sweeping those out of the way,” he said.
He said he was “kind of looking forward” to seeing how displeased locals might welcome the club. “They’re going to have to have a pretty big budget for graffiti removal,” he said.
Soho House said it was conscious of those concerns. Min Shrimpton, a spokeswoman for House Foundations, the club’s charitable wing, said it would offer a mentorship program that pairs 25 “young creatives from lower socioeconomic and underrepresented backgrounds” with its members. Some of those mentees would come via a local organization that offers job training and creative programming to 15- to 24-year-olds experiencing homelessness.
“We definitely don’t want to shy away from things like that,” Ms. Shrimpton said, adding, “As a private members’ club, it’s not necessarily an easy link of how we’re going to step in and help.”
Threading the Needle of ‘Elite and Weird’
When news broke that Soho House was coming to Portland, Brooke Jackson-Glidden, the editor of Eater Portland, summed up the question on everyone’s lips in an article : “My immediate thought is, “Who is this for?’”
Ashod Simonian, 49, the creative director of a perfume brand, moved from Los Angeles to Portland in 2006 because of its reputation as a young, progressive city with access to nature and great beer. He is relatively unfazed the fact that condos have been built on top of some of his favorite bars and music venues.
“This is what’s happened in every urban area in the history of time,” he said. “I never want to be the old guy screaming, ‘Get off my lawn.’”
Mr. Simonian joined Soho House because its price seemed reasonable compared to the combined cost of a gym and a co-working space. “Yeah, it’s super expensive, but everything is expensive now,” he added.
Rai Renee, who works for a creative agency and a nonprofit, said she wouldn’t be mourning the old Portland, which she said has traditionally excluded people of color. Ms. Renee, who is Black, hopes the club will be part of a trend toward spaces in Portland that are more welcoming. If the club ends up attracting interesting members, it could be a good place to network with the city’s “movers and shakers.”
“There’s mixed feelings when you bring in something that would be considered elitism to a city that’s considered hippy-dippy and weird — but you can be elite and weird,” Ms. Renee said.
She is still waiting to hear back if she has been accepted to the Portland Soho House. “I’m trying to be a high-level weirdo,” she said.
Jack Begg contributed research.
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Visitors can hear a little boy crying inside the UK’s most haunted abandoned hospital.
St Bartholomew’s Hospital in Rochester, Kent, which has now been demolished, was the oldest hospital in the UK before it was closed in 2016.
Some claim they have seen a woman ‘walking through the wall in one side of the rooms’.
Others reported seeing a six-year-old boy wearing a tatty white shirt, grey pullover and long socks crying for his parents in the corridors, KentLive reports.
It was rumoured if the little boy was spotted, it meant there was going to be a death on one of the wards.
Kim Hargreaves, who took the footage, explored the building in 2020 after it was closed down in 2016.
Images show filthy floors and walls stripped of paint.
Muddy footprints van be seen scattered across the floor along with old markers to remind people to use hand sanitizers.
At the time of its closure, St Bartholomew’s was the oldest operating hospital in the UK having opened in 1078.
It was open for more than 900 years before being sold for £2.65 million for redevelopment into a block of flats.
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In the 19th century, it was built with charitable donations after the hospital continued to operate in unsatisfactory conditions.
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Australian TV producer Bunya Entertainment says that Sophia Zachariou will step down as co-managing director, after a five-year stint. Bunya Entertainment is one part the Bunya Group of companies and was established by Zachariou, David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin in 2019. Zachariou is currently in post-production on “The Office” (Amazon) and “Ladies in Black” (ABC) and will deliver these series before she departs the company. Other productions from Bunya Entertainment include the six x half-hour sketch comedy series “The Moth Effect” (Amazon) and the comedy series “Nice Shorts.”
“We have loved [Zachariou’s] vibrant contribution over the past five years. She leaves the company in great shape, with a strong production and development slate. We wish Sophia every success with her future endeavors,” said Jowsey and Simpkin.
LOVING LIMBO
“Limbo” was the big winner on Monday at the Film Critics Circle of Australia , which handed out its annual FCCA Awards for Australian Films of 2023 at a ceremony in Sydney. “Limbo” claimed six out of nine total awards, including best film and best director for Ivan Sen . Simon Bake r won the best actor prize for his role in the film. Best supporting actor and best supporting actress were awarded to Rob Collins and Natasha Wanganeen , respectively, for their performances in “Limbo.”
Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the best actress prize for “Shayda,” with the film also winning best screenplay for Noora Niasari. Rachel Ward took home best documentary feature for “Rachel’s Farm,” which she directed and starred in.
HIGHER ORBIT
The Stars-Hana Investment fund is partnering with “leading game companies including Tencent and Tencent-owned DreamSky Technology , as well as HYJZ, Forevernine, and other globally renowned gaming companies with hundreds of millions of users,” to concurrently develop a series of video games.
It reports that, as producer, it is developing adaptations of upcoming films and IP that include: “Every House is Haunted” from Sam Raimi and Roy Lee; “The Burden” from James Wan and Sam Raimi; “Hunting Season” from James Wan and Don Murphy; James Wan’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” “Mass Extinction” and “GMO”; “The Goxfather” with Jon Chu; and “Memory Lost in Space,” based on the bestsellers by Tong Hua.
Stars Collective holds a 25-year exclusive picture-related merchandising license in the Greater China region for the upcoming “The Garfield Movie” encompassing all categories, except theme park and stage rights.
ENTERTAINING TOKYO
Mitsubishi Estate and Tokyo Broadcasting System have broken ground on an entertainment industry hub in central Tokyo that will span 205,800 m2 (2.2 million square feet) including office, theatre, retail and hotel space, property publication Mingtiandi reports.” We aim to become a base that delivers the best content to the world, including establishing facilities where entertainment-related companies, startup companies, and creators can gather,” the companies said in a statement. The partners are reported to be committing JPY 200 billion ($1.34 billion) to the project.
“Located in a traditional entertainment area, Akasaka Entertainment City also includes an 18-storey, 38,150 m2 block which will include 12 floors of hotel space and six levels for theatres. The developers plan to incorporate a 4,900 m2 plaza connected directly to Akasaka station on Tokyo Metro’s Chiyoda Line,” Mingtiandi said.
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