![]() Today, the mansion only has four stories, as it took serious damage in the 1906 earthquake – it was however saved from total collapse thanks to being built on a floating foundation, which allows the house to shift, as it’s not completely attached to the brick foundations. Winchester slept in a different room each night), 47 fireplaces, 17 chimneys, two basements, and three elevators. There are approximately 161 rooms (a hidden attic space was discovered just two years ago), including 40 bedrooms, two ballrooms, 13 bathrooms (but only one functioning toilet – the others were decoys to confuse the spirits, also a reason for why Mrs. Winchester preferred, but didn’t like the look of – as a result, about 20k gallons of paint were used to paint the house. The result was a seven-story mansion predominantly made of redwood, which Mrs. ![]() She came to believe that her family and fortune were haunted by these ghosts, and she used her tremendous wealth to continuously build a house to appease these spirits construction was ongoing for 38 years, around the clock and without interruption or any sort of master building plan, but rather following the widow’s daily whims, and ceased on the day of her death. The legend goes that after the death of Winchester’s infant daughter and husband, a Boston medium told her that she should leave New Haven and travel West, where she must build a new home for herself and the spirits of people who had died through Winchester rifles. With her husband’s death, Sarah Winchester inherited today’s equivalent of over half a billion dollars and almost fifty percent ownership of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, which gave her an additional daily income of what would amount to 25k dollars today. The beautiful Queen Anne Style Victorian mansion located in San Jose, renowned for its many architectural oddities, used to be the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, widow of the firearm magnate. Being a huge Stephen King fan, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to visit the mansion that inspired Rose Red when in California.
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