In the 1800s the Winchester family was known as a weapons manufacturer Winchester Repeating Arms Co., which had built a business empire of weapons sold and bought.
When Will Winchester died of tuberculosis in 1881 he left Sarah Winchester with enormous wealth.
Sarah inherited most of her wealth, also half of the ownership of a large arms company built by her husband.
After the death of her husband, Sarah was very mourning, she had not even forgotten the death of her baby girl a few years earlier in 1866.
Sarah suddenly left New Haven, Connecticut, with a large sum of money and moved to California.
In 1884 he bought a modest eight-room farmhouse with an area of 44 hectares on land covered by apricots.
He was quickly known as an eccentric woman, who always wore black mourning clothes and rarely talked to anyone. Coupled with his strange habit of building his house without stopping.
Sixteen carpenters and many construction workers were brought in to work on building and redesigning homes without stopping, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Hundreds of rooms added, many for no apparent reason or purpose.
What makes it even stranger is that the design and plan of the building is always changing without notice.
This haphazard construction takes place day after day, without any costs saved.
The whole house is made of red wood, which strangely always leaves fake stains and oats because he does not like these hues.
The construction of endless, long-winded, aimless and very unique mansions attracted a lot of media attention at the time. Many people came to see the architectural anomaly while speculating about why it was done.
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