The whole house was built in a jumble to puzzle the spirits. Public Domain One of the staircases to nowhere in the Winchester mansion. This was a way for Sarah to control the spirits that came to the house for evil purposes. 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. The number thirteen had a noteworthy role to play in the construction of the house. Thirteen steps on a staircase, thirteen window panels, thirteen door frames. Together with that everything that contained a certain amount of something contained it in 13s. There were countless staircases that led to nowhere, a blind chimney, closets that opened to blank walls, trap doors, double back hallways, and more other oddities. Eventually the place grew to a height of seven storeys, with three elevators, 47 fireplaces. The fascinating mansion is still owned by the family (families) who purchased it from the Winchester estate in 1922. 22 carpenters worked for her 24 hours a day. The Winchester Mystery House earned landmark status on August 7, 1974. She then began rebuilding, altering, changing, construction and demolishing one section of the house after the other for the next 39 years. She bought the home on the 162 acre land. She also received and income of $ 1000 per day.įollowing the advise of a spiritual medium, and believing that she was under the influence of a terrible curse, caused by the people who died from a weapon created by the company owned by her late husband, she moved to the Santa Clara Valley in 1884 where she found a six room home under construction which belonged to a Dr. On 7 March 1881, he died and as a result of his death Sarah inherited over $20 million dollars, an incredible amount in those times. The infant died on 24 July, and Sarah was so traumatized by this event that she withdrew into herself and wavered on the edge of psychosis for some time.Īlmost a decade later another disaster struck and William, now heir to the Winchester empire contracted pulmonary tuberculosis. Just a short time later, Sarah's daughter contracted an illness knows as "marasmus," a children's disease in which the body wastes away. On 30 September 1862, at the height of the Civil War Sarah Pardee married William Wirt Winchester in an elaborate ceremony in New Haven an on 15 July 1866, Sarah gave birth to a daughter called Annie Pardee Winchester. Her lack of size, she was only four feet and ten inches tall, made up for her persona and allure.
Her splendor was also well-known by the young men about town, despite her miniature size. She was well-received at all social events, thanks to her musical skills, her smoothness in various foreign languages and her sparkling charm. The baby's name was also Sarah and as she reached maturity she became the belle of the city. Our story begins in September 1839 with the birth of a baby girl to Leonard and Sarah Pardee of New HavenConnecticut.
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