| The Driskill Hotel, opened on December 20, 1886. It | | | | lore, the senator was visiting Austin to participate in a |
| was the second tallest building in Austin for many | | | | political event at the hotel. His unattended four-year-old |
| years, the State Capitol Building being the first. Within | | | | daughter was playing with a ball near the staircase |
| four months of the Grand Opening, Jesse Driskill was | | | | when she slipped, and fell, and died on the marble floor |
| bankrupt and lost the hotel in a high-stakes poker | | | | at the bottom of the stairs. Late at night, the front desk |
| game to J.M. "Doc" Day. The Driskill Hotel closed its | | | | staff has heard the child bouncing the ball down the |
| doors in May 1887.. Three years later, Driskill died, flat | | | | steps as her giggling echoes through the empty lobby. |
| broke. The beautiful hotel reopened under new | | | | During the 1940's a young woman who planned to |
| management and embarked on a long, and rocky | | | | marry and spend her honeymoon at the hotel met a |
| career as the reigning queen of Sixth Street. | | | | tragic end by her own hand. After her fiancé |
| The Driskills first ghost is that of Jesse Driskill. He | | | | canceled the wedding at the last minute, she hanged |
| makes his presence known by smoking cigars and | | | | herself in her rose-filled room. Known as one of the |
| turning bathroom lights on and off in several guest | | | | Driskills more active apparitions, many employees and |
| rooms on the top floors of the hotel. The daughter of | | | | guests have witnessed the sad woman pacing the |
| a U.S. Senator haunts the grand staircase leading from | | | | hallways of the haunted fourth floor traditional side in |
| the mezzanine down to the lobby. According to hotel | | | | her wedding dress. |