Santa Fe · The Plaza & downtown
La Posada de Santa Fe
Many rooms are in adobe casitas and wings added from the 1930s on around Abraham Staab's 1882 mansion, where guests report Julia Staab's ghost.
- Built
- 1882Abraham Staab built his three-story brick Second Empire mansion in 1882 (resort history page; HHA "dates back to 1882"; city survey "1882"). In the 1930s R.H. and Eulalia Nason built Pueblo Revival adobe casitas around the mansion and opened La Posada (HHA: they bought it in 1936); more lodging was added in the 1980s and in a late-1990s renovation. The Staab House now holds a bar. Which room types are in the 1930s casitas is not stated; HHA's ghost lore names a Room 101 in the Staab House.
- Style
- Second Empire (Staab House); Pueblo Revival (1930s casitas)
- Type
- Resort
- Area
- The Plaza & downtown
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district; Local landmark; Historic Hotels of America member
The story
German émigré Abraham Staab, whose wholesale firm with his brother Zadoc became the territory’s largest, built the brick mansion on Palace Avenue in 1882 for his wife Julia. Julia Staab died in 1896 and Abraham in 1913. Lawrence and Edna Elliot owned the house from 1920; in 1936 Harold and Eulalia Nason bought it with six acres and older adobe structures and built casitas around it, calling the business La Posada. The resort grew in the 1980s, was renovated after Olympus Corp. bought it in 1997, and joined Historic Hotels of America in 2019.
The ghost story
Guests and staff report seeing the apparition of Julia Staab, wife of the mansion's builder, in the Staab House, particularly in Room 101 near the fireplace, and describe a melancholy but benign presence. The resort itself says her alleged spirit has featured on ghost tours and on Unsolved Mysteries.
Source: www.historichotels.org
Good to know
- Parking: on-site paid
- Pets welcome
- Address: 330 E Palace Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.