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Mar 11, 2022 · By the turn of the century, Sarah Winchester had her ghost house: an oddly laid out mansion, with seven stories, 161 rooms, 47 fireplaces, 10,000 panes of glass, two basements, three elevators, and a mysterious fun-house-like interior. Public Domain One of the staircases to nowhere in the Winchester mansion.
Learn about the life and legacy of Sarah Winchester, the heiress who built the Winchester Mystery House® in San Jose, CA. Discover the facts, mysteries, and rumors behind the world's most unusual and sprawling mansion.
The Winchester house is the setting of a subplot in the 1997 Tim Powers fantasy novel Earthquake Weather. The story in the 2001 miniseries "Rose Red" created by Stephen King was inspired by the lore surrounding Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House.
- 1884–1906
- 525 South Winchester Boulevard San Jose, CA 95128
- 868
Sep 15, 2023 · The Real Origins of the Winchester Mystery House. Following the deaths of multiple family members—including her infant daughter in 1865, her father in 1869, her mother in 1880, both her father ...
- Hadley Mendelsohn
- Contributor
Jul 7, 2016 · The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, sits between the eight lanes of the I-280 freeway, a mobile home park, and the remains of a Space Age movie theater.
Feb 1, 2018 · When Walter Magnuson arrived at San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House as its new general manager in 2015, he asked the tour guides at the famed, peculiar mansion to show him everything. “I would ...
The "Mystery House". 1922. December 15, 1922: The auction sale of Llanada Villa and it’s surrounding acreage is finalized. This property is further divided and sold. 1923. April 1923 – John and Mayme Brown lease Llanda Villa and its remaining grounds and move their family onto the estate.
