The Winchester House, near San Jose California, is perhaps the most bizarre house ever built. Mrs Sara Winchester was convinced that if she stopped adding rooms onto her house, she would die. Sara was the widow of of William Wirt Winchester and heiress to his estate and a 50 percent holding in the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.
So every year for thirty eight years construction went on. The house contains over 2,000 doors and 10,000 windows, many of which open on to blank walls and stairways that go no-where.
The eight story house has forty-eight fireplaces and miles of secret passages and hallways.
When Mrs Winchester died in 1922, her mansion contained 160 rooms and covered over six acres of ground.
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