Winchester House
Heiress's sprawling labyrinth
Winchester House is a sprawling mansion in San Jose, California, famous for its bizarre, labyrinthine architecture—staircases leading to ceilings, doors opening onto walls, hallways that dead-end.
Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, continuously expanded the house from 1884 until her death in 1922, allegedly to appease spirits of those killed by Winchester firearms.
The house is now a tourist attraction and shorthand for obsessive, purposeless construction: This codebase is a Winchester House of patches.
- hauntedOccupied by ghosts
- ghost storyNarrative featuring apparitions
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- VictorianOf a prim era
- mansionLarge, stately home
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