Six years after moving in at the elegant estate, Phelps died there.
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On a guided tour, today’s visitors to the museum can walk the marble floors, pass the carved woodwork and inspect the furniture of the Gilded Age inside the home where the prominent Binghamton family lived.
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Phelps - along with his sons, Robert and Arthur - moved into the newly built three-story brick and stone mansion now housing the Phelps Mansion Museum on Court Street in Binghamton.Ī self-made millionaire, Phelps established Phelps Bank, was part owner of the gas and water companies in town, and was elected mayor of Binghamton, house manager Joe Schuerch said. In 1872, businessman and widower Sherman D. "He actually peeked his head around the corner, and everyone said, 'Did you see the butler?'" The family quipped with a unanimous "Yes." "The butler just showed up the other day while the family was sitting in the dining room," Bertron said of recent conversations with the homeowner. She typically sticks to a back bedroom.įootsteps of the servant, nicknamed the butler, can be heard in the attic, and sometimes be becomes visible. The woman can be heard cooing babies to sleep. He's even pushed her up the stairs when she was beginning to fall. The homeowner was doing laundry one day when the door was held open three times in a row. Though the solider is grumpy, he's still polite. The stereo system turned on, and the homeowner's daughter called and said she was in a car crash. The son's electronic toys went off minutes before lightning struck a tree across the street. "A bulb was out near the stairs, and a ghost whispered in (the homeowner's) ear, 'You need to change that bulb someone's going to get hurt,'" Bertron said. Inside the home, when electrical items unexplainably turn on or off, homeowners know something is about to happen. Another is a woman whom Bertron and the current resident believe is a former homeowner. One ghost is described as a grumpy but helpful soldier. The large, red brick dwelling is one of the most prominently haunted residences in the area - it's home to three ghosts, Bertron said. That proof for Bertron is the firsthand experience of a homeowner on the 700 block of West Water Street.
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"It's just intriguing to know there are things you cannot see, but evidence they are there," she said. Fascinated by the history of the camp and as a believer in the paranormal, Bertron - who's a dietitian by day - led ghost walks around the campus in mid-October, which were organized through Chamberlain Acres and her Facebook group, Haunted Elmira.