The Boston House

Florida East Coast Railway engineer William T. Jones built this neoclassical and Georgian-style home in 1909 using a $6,000 railroad injury settlement; he went on to serve as St. Lucie County's third sheriff before losing the property during the Great Depression. In 1918, Jones's nine-year-old son accidentally killed a playmate on the property, the only documented tragedy tied to the house. Restored in 1984-85 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, the house has served as a law office and, more recently, a restaurant. A popular local ghost story attributes a grieving woman named Aleaceon Perkins, said to watch from an upstairs window for a husband and son lost at sea, to the house — but local historians, including Main Street Fort Pierce, have found no record connecting any Perkins family to the property, and consider the story unsubstantiated folklore layered onto the real Jones history. Visitors nonetheless describe a red-haired woman in a tattered white gown in the halls, a woman's singing voice sometimes accompanied by a harp, and personal belongings and papers that go missing or turn up moved.