Located in the historic area of Pensacola, Florida at 214 East Zaragoza Street, circa 1888. Although the house was built by John and Kate Lear, Benito and Katherine Elizabeth Rocheblave bought it in 1897 and owned it for many years. It is an example of two-story Folk Victorian architecture in Pensacola. Its spacious rooms and delicate jigsawed porches recall a time when large families lived near Seville Square.  

The reports of paranormal activity are mostly of items being moved about with no explanation and an unknown female apparition has been sighted. No one knows who or what could be responsible for the odd occurrences. During one renovation, a painter saw a woman in Victorian dress dancing in one of the second floor bedrooms. He went to get his fellow workers, but when they returned the woman was no longer there, but there was a strong odor of perfume in only that room.  Other reports of lights being found on in the house when the staff arrives in the morning for work.

The Pensacola Historical Society has just recently come into ownership of the house and the upstairs, where all the paranormal manifestations occur, was off limits due to restoration work. We were, however, shown about the ground floor, showing us the most modern house on the tour as of yet—around the turn of the century. 

When the University of West Florida was doing their dig at the Old Christ church, they stored much of their equipment, many artifacts and the coffins containing skeletons of the rectors, which had been excavated. The archeologists left one evening after carefully placing all the bones in the correct order. The next morning they found the door locked as they had left it, but the bones in each of the boxes had been moved around. There was no evidence that anyone had entered the house after the students locked it for the evening.