The story
The Queen Anne Hotel stands at Sutter and Octavia in San Francisco's Pacific Heights, an elaborate 1890 Victorian that opened as Miss Mary Lake's School for Girls, a finishing school for the daughters of the city's wealthy, reputedly with the patronage of silver magnate James G. Fair. After the school closed the building passed through lives as a gentlemen's club and lodging house before restoration as a boutique hotel filled with period furniture. Its haunted reputation is famously benign and centres on Miss Mary Lake herself, whose office is said to have been on the fourth floor where room 410 now stands: guests there have described waking to find their blankets gently tucked in, a warm presence, items tidied, and occasionally a woman's figure, while others report cold spots and footsteps elsewhere in the building. The hotel embraces the story warmly. These accounts should be presented as guest reports and affectionate local folklore rather than proven phenomena. Current room and booking details should be confirmed from the official site before publishing.