More About Miss Molly's

Knock the dust off your boots at Miss Molly's Hotel where comfort, elegance & the sense of coming home are yours to enjoy as our guest. Antiques and turn of the century lace surround you. Our 1910 former brothel, has been caringly restored so that you might experience western home-style hospitality.

Let yourself drift back through Fort Worth's past by spending the weekend at Miss Molly's Hotel.

Within "shoutin" distance of the Dallas--Fort Worth Metropolitan Area, it's still an escape from the fast paced outside world. You won't find telephones or television sets cluttering your room.

Miss Molly's, built about 1910, is located above the Star Café in the midst of Fort Worth's Stockyards in the north end of town.

The former brothel gives visitors an authentic look at the city's somewhat raucous and rowdy past. A sign outside one of the rooms says:  "Street ladies bringing in sailors must pay for room in advance."

Walking through the eight bedrooms is like spending time in a museum. All

have turn-of-the-century décor and antiques. Every room reflects parts of Fort Worth's colorful history. Some rooms feature cowboy and rodeo themes while others capture the oil and railroad days.

A favorite room for guests is Miss Josie's Room, named after a former madam. The room was originally decorated in red velvet, but now has a fabric on the ceiling and lace covering everything from pillows to curtains.

There is a wood burning stove along with a private bathroom complete with an old fashioned bathtub and a pull-chain toilet.

If your tastes lean toward cowboys, rodeos and railroads, other rooms feature pictures of famous outlaws like the  Sundance Kid. There are also old boots, hats, railroad spikes, and whistles.

Exerted from a article by Elizabeth Campbell that appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Haunted ?

"One of the most haunted properties in Fort Worth and one of the most active paranormal sites in Texas"

Located in the middle of the Fort Worth Stockyards, Miss Molly’s is the oldest Bed and Breakfast in Fort Worth.  Established as a boarding house in 1910 and called the Palace Rooms, it went through the prohibition period being called The Oasis and later as a Bordello in the 1940’s when it was called the Gayatte Hotel.  Miss Molly’s is just old enough to have caught a glimpse of the Wild West and all of the time period of America’s speak-easy and bordello days.  Its long history as a boarding house has included a vast number of residents.  Apparently, some have decided to extend their stay.  Perhaps the large amount of antiques and period pieces in the hotel remind them of the bawdy times that they shared there.

The eight themed rooms in the hotel all share stories of paranormal activity, with the Cattlemen’s and Cowboy rooms having some of the more famous sightings of apparitions.  Visitations have also occurred in the current owner’s private room’s number eight and nine of a young girl, who is considered a former tenant of the hotel.  Most of the sightings have involved the former working girls from the hotel’s days as a bordello.

The phenomena at Miss Molly’s includes full bodied apparitions, unexplained scents, items disappearing and reappearing, toilets flushing

items disappearing and reappearing, toilets flushing on their own, lights turning on and off, cold spots, unlocked doors refusing to open, and a variety of unidentified but entertaining sounds.  According to a former owner, one housekeeper quit because she kept finding coins in rooms even though there had been no guests in that room and she had just finished cleaning only to return and find the coins where she had just cleaned.

Miss Molly’s has been visited by a number of paranormal investigation groups and is listed with Texas Christian University’s paranormal activity class, which makes regular visits to record the phenomena.  Copies of unusual photos and tape recordings, as well as statements of the investigators and results are kept prominently in the common living area. 

The hotel situated above Fort Worth’s Star Café takes visitors up a staircase to another era, period furnishings, furniture,  and a number of stories about unexplained happenings provided with first hand accounts by the owner.  Miss Molly’s is considered one of the most haunted properties in Fort Worth and one of the most active paranormal sites in Texas.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Fort Worth was the last stopping place for the cowboys to "hoop-and-holler" and have a good time before they drove the cattle up the Chisholm Trail.

Miss Molly's is much more than a business. It is much more than just a place you can rent a room.

Outside our door you'll discover the colorful history of the stockyards, " Where a man was judged by his word and the speed of his gun."

Museums, shopping, dining or boot-scooting country saloons are just part of our charm along with the nation's only daily cattle drive along our brick streets (right through the middle of town).

Come let us make  "The Wild West" come alive for you, because here in the stockyards there is a fine line between then and now,  A Very Fine Line indeed!

It's a Total Experience of the "Old West" Lifestyle.