It was commissioned by the San Jose Repertory Theatre for its 25th anniversary season, and premiered in September–October 2005. The Haunting of Winchester is a musical about her by Craig Bohmler and Mary Bracken Phillips that takes place in the Winchester Mystery House.Tours are conducted of both the house and the grounds on those days. Today, the house is open to the public every day except Christmas Day. The Santa Clara-Los Gatos Boulevard in front of the house was later renamed Winchester Boulevard, after the house.Marriott, who auctioned off almost everything.įollowing her death, the home was auctioned to the highest bidder, who then turned it into an attraction for the public the first tourists walked through the house in February 1923, five months after Winchester died. The belongings in Winchester Mystery House were left to her niece, Marian I. She left a will written in thirteen sections, which she signed thirteen times. She was buried next to Sarah's husband and an infant child in Evergreen Cemetery. A service was held in Palo Alto, California, and her remains lay at Alta Mesa Cemetery until they were transferred, along with those of her sister, to New Haven, Connecticut. She died at Llanada Villa on September 5, 1922, at 10:45pm of heart failure. The "Ark" was located near the eucalyptus grove at Winchester Road, south of what was to become the intersection of Anza Boulevard and U.S. In the 1920s Mrs Winchester also maintained a houseboat on San Francisco Bay at Burlingame, California, which became known as "Sarah's Ark", as it was reputedly kept there as insurance against her fear of a second great flood, such as the Biblical one experienced by Noah and his family, but a more mundane answer is that many people of her social standing in California at that time had houseboats or yachts. The house is listed on the Historic Resources Inventory of the Los Altos Historical Commission. She also purchased a farmhouse, now known as the Winchester-Merriman House, for her sister and brother-in-law. In 1888 Winchester purchased 140 acres of land, the majority of what is now downtown Los Altos, California, to use as a ranch. The property was called Llanada Villa, and would later become known as the Winchester Mystery House. In 1886, she purchased a small, two-story farmhouse and ranch in San Jose, California. In the span of one year, 1881, she lost her mother, her father-in-law, and finally her husband William, who died of tuberculosis. Sarah and William had one daughter, Annie Pardee Winchester, who was born on Jand died on Jof marasmus. On September 30, 1862, in New Haven, Sarah married William Wirt Winchester, the only son of Oliver Winchester, the owner of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. (née Burns), in Summer 1839 in New Haven, Connecticut. She was born the daughter of Leonard Pardee and his wife Sarah W. Since her death, the sprawling Winchester Mystery House has become a popular tourist attraction, known for its staircases that lead to nowhere, along with its many winding corridors and doors that lead to walls or sudden drops. Sarah, however, wasn't obsessed with building due to fear of being haunted in fact, most of the anomalies in the house were due to quick repairs made after the 1906 earthquake destroyed much of the house. This legend was further exaggerated by John and Mayme Brown, theme park developers, who bought the property with the intention of turning it into an attraction. Popular legends, which began during her lifetime, held that she was convinced she was cursed by the spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle, and the only way to protect herself was to continually add on to her California home. Sarah Winchester is best known for using her vast fortune to continue construction on the Winchester mansion in San Jose, California, for 22 years. Her inheritance included $20 million ($561.6 million in 2021) as well as a 50% holding in the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, which made her one of the wealthiest women in the world at the time. Sarah Lockwood Winchester (née Pardee 1839 – September 5, 1922) was an American heiress who amassed great wealth after the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester, and her mother in law, Jane Ellen Hope.
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