Room 310 Our creepiness rating 💀💀💀💀💀
KROC wrote in 2025 that Clara Lillyblad, who ran the hotel, lived in Room 310 and is rumored to still make her presence known there, and that many people request that room. Source: KROC, 2025.
Facts below are drawn from the linked sources.
Real history
Eleven Red Wing businessmen built the Italianate hotel in 1874–1875, when the town was the world's largest primary wheat market; it opened with a grand ball on Thanksgiving Day, 1875. The Red Wing Shoe Company bought and renovated it in 1977, the year it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (Wikipedia).
Ghost stories
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The Sea Wing Our creepiness rating 💀💀💀💀💀
The same article said the hotel served as a temporary morgue after 98 people drowned when a boat sank on Lake Pepin in 1890, and that many believe those victims never left. Source: KROC, 2025.
The same article said the hotel served as a temporary morgue after 98 people drowned when a boat sank on Lake Pepin in 1890, and that many believe those victims never left. Source: KROC, 2025.
Then and now
Public access
Open to the public The hotel takes bookings on its own site (St. James Hotel). Last checked: Nov 1, 2026.
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