Fraunces Tavern, a historic tavern in Lower Manhattan, has a history deeply rooted in America’s revolutionary past — and some say, haunted as well.

“It's the oldest standing privately-owned structure in New York. It was originally built in 1719. Then in 1762, a man called Samuel Fraunces purchased the building for £2,000,” said Eddie Travers, the tavern’s current proprietor.

The building played a critical role during the Revolutionary War, according to Marie Carter, a ghost tour guide with “Boroughs of the Dead.”

“This ended up being a very important place during the revolution,” Carter said. “It’s where a lot of spy activity took place, and it became so important to George Washington that on December 4, 1783, this is the place that he chose to say goodbye to his troops in Manhattan.”

Following the war, Samuel Fraunces sold the tavern, which then operated as a boarding house for more than a century, Scott Dwyer, the executive director of the Sons of the Revolution in the state of New York and Fraunces Tavern, said.

“When you think about a haunted space, you think about people who may have died here, and so over the building's 300-year history, there are a handful of documented cases where people did end their lives or lose their lives here,” Dwyer said.

One of the most well-known stories is that of Anna Gardy, a ballerina who moved into the building with her husband in 1799.

“Her husband was incredibly jealous. One day, he murdered his wife and then committed suicide,” Carter said. “And there are people who work in Fraunces Tavern who say that sometimes when they’re in the basement [where] the murder-suicide took place, they can sort of feel this heavy sadness when they go in there.”

Travers said other eerie incidents include encounters with apparitions.

“We had a couple of incidents where female members [of the] staff in the kitchen, the first one when she was going down the stairs to the basement here, a figure walked towards her,” Travers said. “It was the figure of a man. She actually fainted.”

"We’ve had staff members hear and feel things, from voices to unexplained changes in temperature,” Dwyer added. “Even in my own office late at night, I’ve heard footsteps above my office.”

“Over the years, we’ve had several people investigate the tavern and the museum spaces. We’ve had recordings of voices, of noises that were unexplained,” Dwyer went onto say.

Travers also recalled a former night porter who once heard what could be described as a ghostly gathering.

“I come in one morning and he was freaking out, as he heard noises, and he was telling me that like, it sounded like there was a party going on. He heard, like, clinking of glasses and, you know, the sound of people chattering,” Travers said.

But Dwyer says the incidents aren’t isolated to just the evening hours.

“The hauntings have been throughout the day or at night, when the museum has been open or closed,” Dwyer said. “All very much unexplained, and all attributed to something that wasn't quite here with us in a human form.”