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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 William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's death in 1922.
Sarah 'Sallie' Lockwood Winchester (née Pardee; June 4, 1839 – September 5, 1922) was an American heiress who amassed great wealth after the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester, and her mother in law, Jane Ellen Hope.
Haunting of Winchester House is a 2009 supernatural horror film produced by The Asylum. The story revolves around a family that moves in as new caretakers of the Winchester Mystery House but encounter the spirits within. [1] It utilizes a fictionalized version of the life of Sarah Winchester.
Winchester (also known as Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built) is a 2018 supernatural horror film directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, and written by the Spierigs and Tom Vaughan. The film stars Helen Mirren as heiress Sarah Winchester , with Jason Clarke and Sarah Snook , and follows Winchester as she is haunted by spirits inside her San ...
Winchester House may refer to: in England. Winchester Palace, former residence of the Bishops of Winchester in London, also known as Winchester House; Winchester House, Chelsea, a later former residence of the Bishops of Winchester in London; Winchester House, Putney, 18th century private club in London; in the United States
This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes.
So Ellen used nearly all of her dead husband's fortune to enlarge the home significantly over the next several decades (a plot element reminiscent of the real-life construction of the Winchester Mystery House). [13] According to Ellen, the house telepathically spoke to her and told her what it wanted constructed.
Winchester House was raided by rioters protesting the Statute of Labourers in 1450. [8] Classing clerics as tax collectors, they murdered them and released prisoners from the Clink before burning it down. The rebellion was put down and Winchester House was rebuilt and extended, including a new prison.