History & local legend
The Evergreen Hotel stood near Babcock Boulevard and Evergreen Road in Ross Township. Matthew Cridge opened it in 1874, serving people who came out from Millvale by horse railway to eat, dance and stay overnight. The building was demolished in 2011.
Local investigator Nick Markowitz collected stories about the hotel before writing about it in 2014. People told him that an unseen presence pulled their hair or pushed them on the stairs. One account involved someone trapped in a bathroom when the door would not open.
Markowitz presented these as experiences related by other people, including friends.
Sources
- Nick Markowitz Jr., Dark Matters & Mysteries, 2014, reports stories he heard in connection with the Ross Township hotel
- Pittsburgh Magazine, local history of Evergreen Hamlet, hotel opening, passenger railroad, haunted reputation and demolition
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Evergreen’s Colorful Past, May 25, 2006, location and the horse-drawn passenger railway
