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- Over the course of 40 years, Sarah Winchester had the so-called Winchester Mansion built in San Jose to her bizarre specifications — in order to appease the ghosts she thought were haunting her.
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Dec 8, 2020 · The short answer: to protect herself from the spirits of the dead who were killed using Winchester rifles. Sarah, as it turns out, was something of a spiritualist, part and parcel of a cultural boom in the United States in the mid-1800s that, like the Winchester, developed during the Civil War.
The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's death in 1922.
Jul 8, 2020 · Sarah built doors that led to nowhere, staircases that abruptly ended, windows built on the inside of the house, and detailed design elements that created a bizarre feeling within the home. At its most complete, the mansion had two basements, 47 fireplaces, 161 rooms, and stood at seven stories.
Mar 11, 2022 · Over the course of 40 years, Sarah Winchester had the so-called Winchester Mansion built in San Jose to her bizarre specifications — in order to appease the ghosts she thought were haunting her. There was no plan – no official blueprints were drawn up, no architectural vision was created, and yet a once-unfinished house took shape on a ...
Jan 24, 2018 · From shortly after her husband died in 1881 until her own death in 1922, rifle heiress Sarah Winchester lived alone. Why, then, did she insist on ever-present construction that transformed her farmhouse's initial eight rooms into a sprawling 160-room mansion that spanned 24,000 square feet, complete with doors and stairwells that led to nowhere?
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Sarah Winchester was a woman of independence, drive, and courage who lives on in legend. And the mansion she built is world renowned as much for the many design curiosities and innovations (many ahead of their time) as it is for the reported paranormal activity that resides within these walls.
The Winchester House, or Winchester Mystery House as it is better known, is a 160-room Victorian Mansion built by Sarah L. Winchester, wife of rifle manufacturer William Wirt Winchester. Sarah and William were married on September 30, 1862, and had one child, Annie Pardee, who died about a month after birth in 1866.
