We took a 65-minute tour through 110 rooms of the unique estate. "Some of them love the architecture, some want to see the ghosts, some like the history," Janan Boehme, the historian at the house, told Business Insider. Since 1923, tours have been taking curious visitors through the gargantuan mansion, which remains a famous tourist attraction today. (CNN) There's an odd sight just outside downtown San Jose, California's 'capital of Silicon Valley.' It's not a convoy of self-driving cars or a brigade of AI robots, but an extravagant. Inside you'll find quite a few architectural oddities, like a staircase that leads to nowhere, cabinets that open into walls, and a door that open up to a 12-foot drop. Crews reportedly worked around-the-clock to maintain a steady building rate. Construction on the home spanned over 30 years until Winchester's death in 1922. The estate's mystery stems from a century-old legend: that Winchester built the mansion to escape the angry spirits of those killed by a Winchester rifle, which her husband's company invented. The Winchester Mystery House is a 160-room, Victorian mansion in San Jose, California, that was built by eccentric heiress Sarah Winchester, who inherited the fortune to the firearm company Winchester Repeating Arms when her husband died in 1881. Come step inside and hear the houses whispers.Inspired by true events, this masterfully crafted horror tale written by Joshua Werner and beautifully. Most of the place just doesnt make sense. The Winchester house has been open to tours since 1923.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Winchester didnt use blueprints to build she just sketched out ideas on napkins and scrap paper. Its depressing not to take pictures inside, but its really cool. “Legend has it when Sarah’s around, you catch the smell of roses and I was watching through this hallway in pitch black after doing a shoot and right as I hit a cross section of the hallway - boom - roses,” Williams said. Latest travel itineraries for Winchester Mystery House in June (updated in 2023). Some say the heiress still haunts the rooms of her own home. 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. “Sarah would come in here during the evenings and consult the spirits to see which room she would build next,” Williams told Inside Edition. 
Marketing director Jacob Williams says the widow sought guidance in the séance room. Sarah Winchester reportedly believed that if she ever stopped construction on the house, the ghosts would get her.
WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE PHOTOS INSIDE WINDOWS
There are countless windows on interior walls with no clear function, including a window in the floor in the middle of a room. The peculiar residence has 40 staircases and 2,000 doors, including one that allows you to leave one room with no floor beneath it. The mysterious mansion has no floor plan or blueprint. One door in the sprawling room opens to a fire safe door that opens to a safe that opens to a smaller safe. The grand ballroom is one of the most ornate rooms in the behemoth home. It’s not clear why the heiress was compelled to build such a labyrinth of a home, but legend says she believed a medium who warned her that the family was cursed by the victims of rifles made by Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and the ghosts of those victims would only be satisfied if Winchester built them a home, spawning the large-scale and constant construction. What started off as a meek two-story farmhouse ended as a four-story 24,000 square-foot enigma of a residence, leaving Winchester to sink most of her inherited fortune into the construction of the house. The Winchesters had only one child who died during infancy, leaving the matriarch to inherit her husband’s fortune - valued at $20 million.Ĭonstruction began on the mansion in 1886, but according to historians, never ended until her death in 1922. Known today as the Winchester Mystery House, the sprawlingand incongruousQueen Ann Revival was the constantly in-progress, and forever-unfinished, home to Sarah Winchester, the widow of. Sarah Winchester, who is portrayed by Mirren in the film, moved to California with her sister and niece after her husband, William Wirt Winchester, died in 1881. Inside Edition went inside the 160-room Queen Anne-style Victorian mansion in San Jose, Calif., which is filled with elaborate hallways, staircases that lead to nowhere and more doors than one can imagine.
Helen Mirren’s new horror movie, Winchester, tells the frightening story of what is widely regarded as the most haunted house in America, and what awaits inside may be more terrifying than the film.
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