Zalud House

	Zalud House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	393 N. Hockett St., Porterville, California
Coordinates	36°4′21″N 119°0′56″W / 36.07250°N 119.01556°W
Area	0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1891
Architect	Templeton, Hugh; Templeton, John
Architectural style	Second Empire
NRHP reference No.	86003681
Added to NRHP	March 31, 1987

The Zalud House is a historic house located at 393 N. Hockett St. in Porterville, California.

History

The house was built by John Zalud, a Porterville businessman, in 1891. Architects Hugh and John Templeton designed the building in the Second Empire style; the house is the only Second Empire home in Porterville. The design includes a mansard roof with decorated dormer windows, a front porch with wooden ornamentation, and tall double-hung sash windows on the front and sides. While the house was built in brick, a departure from the standard wood construction of Second Empire buildings, it uses wood extensively in its detailing. In 1977, the city of Porterville converted the house to a museum.^[2] The Zalud House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 1987.^[1]

On television

On December 10, 2016, the Zalud House was the featured as a lockdown location on a season 13 episode of Ghost Adventures, where a 'cursed chair' in an upstairs bedroom caused visitors to have chest pains. In 1917, orange grower William Brookes (John Zalud's son-in-law) was murdered in this chair while sitting in the lobby of the former Pioneer Hotel. He was shot four times and killed by a married woman named Julia Howe, who objected to what he was saying about her after bragging he had an affair with her.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Winckler, Terry; Milt Stowe (March 28, 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Zalud House". National Park Service. Retrieved April 17, 2013.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] Winckler, Terry; Milt Stowe (March 28, 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Zalud House". National Park Service. Retrieved April 17, 2013.

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