Zalud House, Historic house museum in Porterville, United States.

The Zalud House at 393 N. Hockett St. is a brick house in the Second Empire style, the only one in Porterville. Architects Hugh and John Templeton gave it a mansard roof with decorated dormer windows, a front porch with wooden ornamentation, and tall double-hung sash windows on the front and sides. Wood detailing is used extensively despite the brick construction.

John Zalud, a Porterville businessman, had the house built in 1891; architects Hugh and John Templeton designed it in the Second Empire style, the only such home in Porterville. The city converted it into a museum in 1977, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 1987.

The house became a city-run museum in 1977, and its name comes from John Zalud, the Porterville businessman who built it in 1891. A 2016 episode of Ghost Adventures filmed a lockdown there, centring on an upstairs bedroom and a chair linked in local storytelling to the 1917 shooting of William Brookes.

The house at 393 N. Hockett St. is open as a city-run museum, converted from a residence in 1977. Visitors move through rooms across more than one floor, so expect stairs between levels. The 1891 brick construction and tall double-hung sash windows are original features to look for during a visit.

The chair linked to the 1917 shooting is not in the house's own rooms: William Brookes, John Zalud's son-in-law, was killed in it in the lobby of the former Pioneer Hotel, and the chair was later moved to an upstairs bedroom. In 2016 the house appeared on Ghost Adventures, where visitors who sat in it reported chest pains.