Built in 1911 to host the variety of travelers visiting the “Magic City of the Plains,” the Plains hotel boasted of amenities not common in hotels of the time, including telephones, private baths, velvet carpets, and high-end furnishings. When the hotel opened, it threw an elaborate grand-opening, complete with live music and attended by many of the important people of Cheyenne in full evening dress. The hotel has been open since that time, and has undergone subsequent renovations, though it preserves the beauty of its historic lobby. Visitors can still see daylight streaming through the beautiful stained-glass skylight in the two-story lobby.
The most well-known apparition at the Plains hotel is Rosie. The tale goes that Rosie and her husband were on their honeymoon when her husband went down to the bar for a drink. When Rosie went in search of her new husband, she found him going back to the room of a prostitute. In a jealous rage, Rosie shot the two of them and then returned to her room and shot herself. The ghosts of all three have been said to haunt the hotel ever since. Rosie can be heard outside the Honeymoon suite, sometimes laughing, talking, or sobbing. Many guests and staff report on the attire of the ghosts–Rosie in her blue dress, her groom in his black dress jacket and white dress shirt, the other woman in a red dress adorned with white lace. According to some reports, Rosie wanders the second floor, while her husband may be spotted anywhere in the hotel. The prostitute frequents the second floor and the lobby. On one occasion she was spotted messing with a mannequin dressed as a bride in the lobby of the hotel, reportedly pushing over the mannequin. Some visitors also report seeing the ghost of a person allegedly pushed out of a fourth-floor window, though not much is known about the story. Another jilted lover, perhaps?
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