The Winchester mansion in San Jose is a labyrinth, filled with staircases that lead to nowhere. It has 160 bedrooms, 40 staircases, 13 bathrooms, and 47 fireplaces. Many believe Sarah Winchester built ...
SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) – Following a pandemic hiatus, one of the spookier Bay Area Halloween traditions is back: walking through the Winchester Mystery House at night. "We have a new indoor tour called ...
There's an odd sight just outside downtown San Jose, California's "capital of Silicon Valley." It's not a convoy of self-driving cars or a brigade of AI robots, but an extravagant, four-story, gabled ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Sarah Pardee Winchester came to the Santa Clara Valley in 1884 with just $20 million to her name. She purchased a modest farmhouse in an orchard, hired a slew of carpenters and ...
Sarah Winchester — heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune and owner of the Santa Clara Valley’s most interesting home — died Sept. 5, 1922. And she has continued to fascinate us, some might say haunt ...
1839. Sarah Lockwood Pardee is born in New Haven, Connecticut. The daughter of Leonard and Sarah Pardee, she is, at the day of her birth, astoundingly wealthy. Leonard Pardee was a carriage ...