According to the website, construction lasted day and night for 38 years. SAN JOSE (CBS SF) - A new room has been discovered and is open to the public at San Joses Winchester Mystery House, a Victorian mansion that was home to a widow of the Winchester rifle fortune. The legend as reported on the Winchester Mystery House website: A medium told Sarah that she was being haunted by spirits of people killed by the famous gun, and she would die unless she started building a house and never ceased. Known for its unusual layout and many bizarre features, the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose is said to be haunted. They did not start the rumors-many began while Sarah was alive-but according to Ignoffo, they embellished the stories wildly and made up new ones in order to sell tickets. Winchester Mystery House 525 South Winchester Boulevard San Jose, CA 95128 (408) 247-2101. Five months after she died the Brown family, long-time carnival workers who rented the house, held a public tour and kept on going, eventually buying the property and making it one of the state's top tourist attractions. Hear about Winchester Mystery House, the mansion left behind by a very superstitious woman Sarah Winchester, widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle. Photographer: Here's the history in a nutshell: Sarah Winchester, the wife of William Wirt Winchester and heiress to the Winchester Rifle fortune, moved to San Jose in 1886 and began building a house-a very large house whose rooms numbered 160 at the time of her death (although before the 1906 earthquake, it was much larger). 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.
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