With no set budget, ceilings and work was commenced. Sarah hired many carpenters and artisans and with her $20million dollar fortune (and the daily income from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company being the equivalent of $30,000 a day). That is one version of the events that inspired Sarah Winchester to build the erratic building. The house is still incomplete, despite its 160 rooms."
Day in and day out, summer and winter, they worked. They constructed elaborate staircases which led from nowhere to nowhere. Day and night the sound of their hammers and saws was never stilled. Winchester hired carpenters and other artisans by the year. That, in brief, is the history of the extraordinary building that still stands in its grove of trees near San Jose. She determined that it would never be finished, and she would live forever. She went to California and began building her ‘palace’ near San Jose.
She took to fortune tellers in an attempt to communicate with her husband.įinally, so goes the story, she was told by a crystal gazer that she was destined to build a beautiful palace, and that she would die when it was completed. Winchester died, and his widow's grief was overwhelming. "In the last century Sarah Winchester was the happy wife of a wealthy man. For a brief history of the building we shall let the 8th February, 1932 edition of the 'Rockhampton Morning Bulletin' fill us in: This 160 room home, built seemingly without rhyme or reason, is regarded as one of the wonders of the world. Here is one fantastic and rather confusing building.
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