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A 19th-century salmon-colored house in Pensacola's Seville District, where a woman reportedly died after being pushed down the stairs and a ghost tour guide was so rattled she quit.
305 S Adams St, Pensacola, FL 32502
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Private residence; exterior viewing from public sidewalk only. Featured on paid ghost tours — contact local tour operators for access.
Access
Limited Access
Sidewalk viewing only. Private property — do not enter without permission.
Equipment
Photos OK
Located in Pensacola's Seville Historic District, documented by HABS/Library of Congress · Adjacent to the Clara Barkley Dorr House, on the National Register of Historic Places · Featured stop on Pensacola ghost trolley and walking tours
The house at 305 S Adams Street occupies one of the most historically documented blocks in Pensacola. The Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) recorded the structure, placing it within the context of Pensacola's surviving 19th-century residential architecture in the Seville Historic District.
Ghost tour guides refer to the building as the Kennedy House and connect it to a single grim incident: a woman is said to have been pushed down the interior staircase by a jealous husband and died from the fall. The event is recounted as a historical fact on tour, but the specific individuals and date have not been identified in available public records — a pattern common to many Pensacola haunted-site narratives that draw on oral tradition rather than newspaper archives.
The building's distinctive salmon exterior makes it recognizable on tour, and it has appeared in Pensacola ghost tour literature for at least several years. The address sits close to the Clara Barkley Dorr House (311 S Adams, on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974), in a stretch of the historic district that concentrates several documented paranormal claims.
Sources
The paranormal reputation of the Kennedy House centers on two incidents that circulate in Pensacola ghost tour literature. The first involves physical activity: during a tour stop on the front porch, a ghost decoration hanging beneath a ceiling fan was abruptly pulled upward into the fan blades despite completely still air. Tour guests screamed; the guide noted that there was no wind or draft to explain the movement.
The second is more unsettling. A different guide, while delivering the house's history to a group, heard a stern disembodied male voice say, 'Don't bring those people on my porch.' The voice was clear enough to shake her badly. She stopped leading tours at the property after that night and, according to accounts, has refused to return.
The spirit associated with the house is gendered male in these accounts, consistent with the alleged story of a jealous husband. Visitors have also reported unexplained shoves on the staircase inside the building and poltergeist-style activity in adjacent areas. The Kennedy House does not offer public interior access, so most accounts come from tour guides and from the handful of ghost investigators who have worked the interior.
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