Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center

Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center (commonly "Hotel Roanoke") is a historic hotel located in the Gainsboro neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia. The original hotel was built in 1882; the property has been rebuilt and expanded multiple times, with the central wing dating from 1938. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Today the property is owned by Virginia Tech and operated under the Curio Collection by Hilton brand. The supplied research materials and archival items consulted for this entry do not document any paranormal reports, hauntings, apparitions, witness accounts, or named supernatural entities associated with Hotel Roanoke. No theories or folkloric traditions related to supernatural activity at the hotel are present in the provided sources. Because the provided sources focus on the hotel's architectural and institutional history, this entry records the absence of documented paranormal claims within those materials rather than asserting that no such claims exist in other, unsearched sources.