The Castle on 63rd Street: H.H. Holmes and the World’s Fair
In 1893, Chicago built the White City. Three miles south, H.H. Holmes built a hotel with corridors that led nowhere, rooms that locked from the outside, and a basement that was never meant for guests. Alexander Lawson tells the story of Herman Webster Mudgett—the charming swindler who turned the World’s Fair into a hunting ground—and the castle America wanted to believe was only a hotel.
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