{"id":30391,"date":"2019-05-15T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=30391"},"modified":"2019-05-15T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:56:00","slug":"a-bizarre-mansion-built-by-the-heiress-to-the-winchester-rifle-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2019\/05\/15\/a-bizarre-mansion-built-by-the-heiress-to-the-winchester-rifle-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"A bizarre mansion built by the heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sarah Lockwood Winchester was the widow of William Wirt Winchester, who died in 1881 of tuberculosis and left Sarah his fortune, which at the time amounted to $20 million (about $450 million in today’s dollars), since he was a member of the family that invented the Winchester repeating rifle. She moved to the Santa Clara Valley and started building a house, one that she kept adding onto until her death in 1922, which has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House<\/a>. By the time she died, the building covered more than 24,000 square feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main mystery is why she built the house the way she did — not only did it have 160 rooms (including 40 bedrooms) and a number of towers and other features, but it also contained a number of bizarre rooms and features that seemed to have no purpose. There’s a staircase that ends at a ceiling, a closet that is only an inch deep, a “door to nowhere” that opens into empty space, and a magnificent stained glass window that is behind a wall, and so doesn’t receive any light with which to illuminate it (the house has about 10,000 other panes of stained glass to make up for it though).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Lockwood Winchester was the widow of William Wirt Winchester, who died in 1881 of tuberculosis and left Sarah his fortune, which at the time amounted to $20 million (about $450 million in today’s dollars), since he was a member of the family that invented the Winchester repeating rifle. She moved to the Santa Clara … <\/p>\n

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