She was also nearly crippled with arthritis. Winchester was a suspicious woman as well as superstitious.
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Second, after placing the window she went on to build a series of rooms on the other side of the window so it now sits on an interior wall. First, she put the window on the north side of the house where it would not receive direct sunlight. Winchester made two critical errors with the placement of that window. The window was meant to reflect to reflect the light into a dazzling array of colors. I recall one beautiful stained glass window purchased by Sarah Winchester that has precious and semi-precious stones inlaid in it. It lacks a cohesive plan so there are famously stairways that leads up into walls and doors that go nowhere. The house itself is a beautiful house it’s just the floor plan that is a bit, shall we say, eccentric. The Winchester mystery House on the other hand still continues to get visitors, some of them, quite probably, like the school child that I was when I first visited. The Eastridge shopping mall is not as unique as it used to be and isn’t the only ice rink for a 100 miles in any direction as it was when I was a kid. Frontier village, my favorite of those, has been gone for many years. I grew up just over an hour south of San Jose and just outside my hometown Salinas there has been a billboard for the Winchester mystery House for many years. It was, as I recall, one of only three things worth going to San Jose for when I was a kid. The Winchester mystery House is in San Jose California conveniently located next to the I280 freeway at the Winchester exit. The mansion she left behind has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House.
She started work on an unfinished farm house 3 miles from San Jose (at the time) in 1884 and continued contraction for 38 years. Whether she believed she was protected from vengeful spirits, wouldn’t die, or just would never have to hold a housewarming party is a subject of speculation. Combine those riches that superstition the advice of a medium, who apparently had a brother-in-law who was a contractor, and Sarah Winchester was led to believe that she would be protected if there was a constant sound of hammers building on her house. She was a superstitious woman who is haunted by the fact that her husband’s invention, while it made her rich, killed a great many people. Sarah Winchester was the widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle.
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