Our girl LOVED designing houses! wikicommonsįor twenty years, Sarah joyfully designed, tore down, and redesigned all the elements of her massive house. The FIRST mega-mansion she worked on: The Winchester home in New Haven, Connecticut. (So many Sarahs…people who knew her called her “Sallie.”) While the family was struggling financially in 1839, they hit the Movin’ On Up jackpot when trendy Victorian architecture and design demanded the finishing details that Leonard created. Sarah Lockwood Pardee was born sometime in the summer of 1839, in New Haven, Connecticut, the fourth of six children of carpenter Leonard and his wife, Sarah Pardee. When you come out the other end and are wandering the gift shop, you have an image of Sarah that leaves out all the interesting details and a good chunk of truth. If you get to tour the mansion there are visual aids to support the legend. A spiritual medium told her to build a mansion as directed by the ghosts of people who had died as a result of the Winchester rifle, the source of her great wealth.

The legend told about this stunning, unique, and well-worth-the-40-bucks-a-visit mansion in San Jose, California is spooky and dramatic: Sarah Winchester built her house after both her baby and her husband passed away. The aforementioned peculiar mansion today.

Sara winchester mystery house