We visited the
Winchester Mystery House today, driving SR-17 once again to San Jose. This house is very much an oddity... here is the description posted on
Wikipedia:
The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California which was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester. Located at 525 South Winchester Blvd. in San Jose, the Queen Anne Style Victorian mansion is renowned for its size, its architectural curiosities, and its lack of any master building plan. It is a designated California historical landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is privately owned and serves as a tourist attraction.
The property and mansion had been claimed to be haunted by ghosts killed with the Winchester rifles, now including Winchester herself, ever since construction commenced in 1884. Under Winchester's day-to-day guidance, its "from-the-ground-up" construction proceeded around the clock, by some accounts, without interruption, until her death on September 5, 1922, at which time work immediately ceased. Sarah Winchester's biographer, however, claims that Winchester "routinely dismissed workers for months at a time 'to take such rest as I might.'" and notes that "this flies in the face of claims by today's Mystery House proprietors that work at the ranch was ceaseless for thirty-eight years."
We enjoyed touring around this place... it is definitely quirky and interesting. If you're ever in San Jose, I recommend you visit. We were not allowed to take photos but below are a few I found online.
We leave Felton tomorrow to make our way north to Travis Air Force Base, which is located between San Francisco and Sacramento.
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| A Door to ??? |
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| A Window in the Floor |
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