Five feet of snow fell upon the town over night and the theater collapsed under the weight of the snow. On New Years Eve 1915, one of the largest snowstorms in Flagstaff history crippled the Majestic Theater. When it first opened its doors, John Weatherford, owner of the Weatherford Hotel, used it to show Flagstaff’s first movies. The Majestic Theater was constructed in 1911. Looking through the window, we arrive at an interesting moment in history. Window to 1916 The main feature of the stairway is an open window with a view facing East on a deep winter night.

They are similar to red curtains found in theaters, with one exception, they have gold tassels and fringe throughout. Looking up, Red drapes wrap around the space giving it a regal appearance. A Mural Mice logo can be found in the center of a stencil at the top of the stairs. In order to give the stairway a realistic period look, we simply stenciled Victorian designs from wall to wall. Once upon a time, the Milligan House was decorated with Victorian wallpaper, but time and multiple remodels tore it all away. A third larger picture frame contains a portrait of Mabel Milligan’s sister-in-law. Many of Mabel Milligan’s personal possessions were burned in a fire therefore we have no existing pictures of her. In order to make the mural more interesting, we took the bird out of the empty nest and depicted her flying through an open window towards the frame with a twig in her beak. One of the two frames depicts an empty nest. We thought it would be fun to paint a couple framed pictures of chickadee’s wintering in a juniper tree. When you get to the mid stairs landing, three framed pictures greet the viewer. Stepping up the creaky stairways in this two story Victorian house, one comes to a landing and a window.

She died upstairs and some believe she never quite left it. Mabel Milligan was a schoolteacher who passed away unexpectedly in 1923 from diabetes. Flagstaff has its share of haunted buildings, but none quite as unique as the Milligan House.

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