The Greek Revival mansion that sits at the corner of Prytania Street and Jackson Avenue in New Orleans’s Garden District wouldn’t know “dull” if it came up and rang the doorbell. The 1857 building’s first owner was a cotton merchant who died of yellow fever. Another owner was fatally struck by lightning. Fast-forward to the 21st century, when a Tina Turner impersonator bought the property and turned it into Magnolia Mansion, a B&B with suites with names like Vampire Lovers’ Lair and Moulin Rouge. Later, a former professional boxer and a local politics kingmaker took over, but things fell apart around the time of the FBI’s raid on the property.

Oh, and the estate is said to be haunted .

The Whit’s moody mahogany-paneled library

Frank Frances Studio

The hotel’s parlor

Frank Frances Studio

Named in its B&B era by USA Today as one of the top places in the nation “to sleep with a ghost,” the magisterial Harris-Maginnis House earned a spot on the city’s ghost-tour circuit with an ever-mounting pile of lore.…