Clara Barkley Dorr House

Clara Barkley Dorr had this Victorian house built in 1871 to raise her five children after her husband Eben, a Bagdad lumber-company employee, died in 1870; the yellow-pine-and-brick home had no electricity or running water when built, since Pensacola didn't get gas lighting until 1884. The Historic Pensacola Preservation Board bought and restored it in 1975, reopening it as a museum in 1980. Visitors and docents have long reported the scent of fresh-cut roses — Mrs. Dorr's favorite flower — followed by a sudden cold spot, soft crying from the sewing room, and a tugging sensation on short skirts near the sitting room's floor-to-ceiling mirror, as if Mrs. Dorr still keeps an eye on her guests' manners.