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The Winchester Mystery House
A gun-fortune widow built a 160-room mansion nonstop for 38 years — legend says to appease the ghosts of everyone killed by her family's rifles.
Sarah Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune, spent nearly four decades continuously building and rebuilding her San Jose mansion, creating a sprawling maze of staircases to nowhere and doors that open onto walls — a style popularly attributed to a belief that construction kept vengeful spirits at bay.
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Quick facts
- →The finished mansion sprawled to roughly 160 rooms.
- →Staircases lead directly into ceilings; doors open onto blank walls or steep drops.
- →Construction ran nearly nonstop from 1886 until Winchester's death in 1922.
- →Winchester never publicly explained her reasons for the design.
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Winchester Mystery House (location)
160-room San Jose mansion continuously built by Sarah Winchester from 1886 to 1922.
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Sarah Winchester (person)
Heir to the Winchester rifle fortune who spent nearly four decades continuously building the mansion.
→ built continuously for 38 years → Winchester Mystery House✓documented