Walking Horse Hotel

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The Walking Horse Hotel is the hotel on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located in downtown Wartrace, Tennessee, and is part of the Wartrace Historic District. The hotel is in such a business, and also contains the Strolling Jim Restaurant, named for the owner of the horse winning exhibition of the original World Championship owners.

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History

The Walking Horse Hotel was first built in 1917 as a railroad hotel, and was given the name of the Hotel Overall. In 1933, the Overall Hotel was bought by Floyd and Olive Carothers. In the late 1930s, it was a base for a group of horse trainers, who eventually created the Tennessee National Horse Running Celebration, the annual horse show held for the first time in 1939. Due to this, the name was changed to the Walking Horse. Hotel. The first winner of the Celebration, Jim Strolling, owned and trained by Floyd Carothers, is buried behind the hotel. Since 2015, the Tennessee Walking Horse National Museum has had a portrait of Jim Strolling framed on display. Floyd Carothers died in 1944, but the hotel was owned and operated by Olive Carothers until 1958. It was sold several times, then renovated in 1995 and reopened as an Overall Hotel. It was closed a few years later, renovated again by new owner Joe Peters, and reopened in 2007 under the name Walking Horse. In keeping with its history, this hotel retains many of the artifacts associated with the Walking Horse, especially at Strolling Jim Restaurant.

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Modern day

The hotel was renovated in 2007, and now includes the Chais Music Lounge, named for the owner of the late wife, and Strolling Jim Restaurant, which serves three meals a day. The hotel has seven rooms available for rent. Each fall from late September to Halloween, the Walking Horse Hotel is open to the public as a haunted attraction. This is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of Floyd Carothers, and in 1995 some guests reported seeing Jim Strolling's ghost "prance" around by his old cage behind the hotel. Paranormal activity should have declined, however, after Olive Carothers, Floyd's widow, died in 1991. In May 2016, the hotel's second floor was on fire. That and the third floor suffered damage to smoke and water but most were unharmed.

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References

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External links

• Official website

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