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Sarah Winchester

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protruding, second story doors opening to nothing where balconies once were, and staircases going up to a ceiling where once another level existed. Only essential repairs were done to the home after the earthquake. Because she stopped construction on her home and did not rebuild, local newspapers declared her a madwoman. The only thing she added to the home was an elevator in 1916.
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employees in her will, along with all of her living family members. Her niece, Daisy, inherited a home in Palo Alto and the contents of all other homes. Any remaining money left in the trusts that she set up for family members was to be left to the William Wirt Winchester Hospital when they died. The will stated that if anyone disputed her wishes they would receive nothing.
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Perkins. She is said to have built the maze of a home to ward off and confuse evil spirits, never stopping construction for 38 years for fear of dying, when in fact she stopped construction many times, including after the 1906 earthquake devastated the home. The room that she was purported to hold nightly seances with the spirits, was actually her gardener's bedroom.
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Her largest donations were to the tubercular ward in New Haven. Initially Winchester donated $ 300,000 anonymously. Over a ten-year period, Winchester donated over a million dollars to the hospital, which opened on April 4, 1918, as the William Wirt Winchester Hospital. Winchester was not well enough
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for some reason. For instance, my upper hall which leads to the sleeping apartment was rendered so unexpectedly dark by a little addition that after a number of people had missed their footing on the stairs I decided that safety demanded something to be done so, over a year ago, I took out a wall and
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Growing up, Pardee was educated, had a private French tutor, and took music lessons. Her family had progressive ideas for the time regarding religion and philanthropic choices, publicly expressing their opinions on such things as abolition, suffrage and animal rights. As an adult Sallie supported her
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By 1903, Winchester's rheumatoid arthritis had disfigured her hands and feet, limiting her ability to walk and write. She was losing her teeth and required dentures. Writing was painful, requiring the help of a stenographer and her niece, Daisy. In 1911, her health improved somewhat, allowing her to
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Most donations by Winchester were done anonymously, only known by her lawyer and discovered after her death from letters and ledgers. She supported social causes, such as being on the finance committee supporting a celebration of California's fiftieth birthday in 1900, and being a paying member of a
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near her houseboat. One of the contractors Winchester hired also rented some of her property to use as farmland. He also stole sand and gravel from her property, leaving the property with large ditches. It was stated that "half the sidewalks in Burlingame were made from sand stolen from Winchester's
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visited California but did not visit Winchester. Rumors have persisted that Roosevelt attempted to visit her but her gate was locked. Roosevelt did not want to meet Winchester since he was worried that it would be seen as him promoting Winchester rifles. While president he was careful to not endorse
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Damage to Llanada Villa included a seven-story tower, the third and fourth floor additions and most of the chimneys collapsed. The plaster, wood and tile work was destroyed. Winchester had the debris cleared and the home made safe but no further building occurred. This left the home with water pipes
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said was rebuilt sixteen times before Winchester was satisfied. She added state of the art plumbing and electrical systems for the time. She built an indoor garden with an irrigation system that watered the plants and sloping floors would channel the water to trap doors, which would then be piped to
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Winchester purchased 140 acres of land next to the Merriman home with the intention of raising and marketing large carriage horses. The purchase of the land proved difficult since the land title was not clear. She hired Samuel Franklin "Frank" Leib to complete the purchase and sort out the title of
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Winchester hired at least two architects, but they would not have been to the calibre she was used to from New Haven. Ignoffo speculates that this could be why she chose to run the construction project herself, seeking the advice of carpenters she hired. Her interest in architecture was evident by
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with rumors she was considering selling Llanada Villa. These stories spread to encapsulate all her properties. The rumors stated that if she sold any, she believed she would die, and there were hints she was involved with the occult. Despite these rumors, Winchester sold one of her Atherton homes.
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After purchasing the Llanada Villa, Winchester invested in more property in the area. She paid $ 10,000 gold coin for a home for the Merrimans. Extensive renovations and additions were made to this home direction of Winchester and her sister. As of 2018 this home was valued at almost seven million
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In 1884, Mary Converse, her eldest sister, died of cancer, convincing Winchester's sisters that they too should move to California. Winchester paid for her sister Isabelle "Belle" Merriman and Estelle Gerard and their children's move. Another sister, Nettie Sprague also moved to California as her
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Most of Winchester's properties were sold off. However, the Llanada Villa was in such poor repair that it was deemed worthless and that only the property held value. John Brown was the only person interested in the land but he was unable to purchase it so a lease agreement was reached. Six months
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Shortly before his death, William made out bank drafts to his wife, totalling $ 7,500 and made her the executrix of his will. Sallie was forty years old when her husband died. She henceforth controlled 777 Winchester Repeating Arms Company shares which were valued at $ 77,700 at the time. Between
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Winchester is depicted as superstitious and crazy instead of innovative and intelligent. She had an apparent love of the number thirteen, demonstrated by thirteen chandeliers, bathrooms, thirteen hooks and thirteen robes, which were all added after Winchester's death according to carpenter James
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The house was located on a country lane named Santa Clara-Los Gatos Road. After Winchester died the road was renamed first Winchester Road then Winchester Boulevard. Her initial plan was to build a house to accommodate her whole family. This never happened partly due to the isolated location and
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in Spain, a place that she and her husband had visited ten years earlier. At this property, Winchester was one of the first to grow fruit in the area. The first person Winchester hired was Rambo to become foreman of the farm, though he did also continue his duties at the Winchester office in San
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She owned multiple rental properties in Palo Alto, believing that property values near Stanford university would increase in value, two homes in Atherton, each on four acres, and thirty undeveloped acres of land. In 1907 she purchased a Tudor style home in Burlingame Park where she stayed while
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named D. F. McGraw named Winchester in his campaign speeches stating she was only assessed $ 640 for all her properties, which he would rectify if voted in. In reality, she was assessed more than $ 80,000. The $ 640 was only for one of her many properties. Winchester sent him a letter that was
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Fred Larsen, Winchester's chauffeur after Carroll's death, Ted Hansen, an employee's son who grew up at Llanada Villa, Frank Leib, Winchester's lawyer, Miss Henrietta Severs, Winchester's companion of many years, were all people who openly stated that Winchester was not superstitious but was
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Leib, who by that time had been her lawyer for more than twenty five years, looked after her bequests in her will. Her estate was estimated to be worth between three and four million dollars, considerably less than what her estate was rumored to be worth. Winchester named five of her closest
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After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Winchester undertook a project that she imagined would attract visitors to the Burlingame area. She envisioned coastal estates with personal docks and passages that visitors visiting California would enjoy after going through the soon to be completed
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Winchester was so successful with her finances that between 1910 and 1912, she received $ 260,000 each year in stock dividends. However, in 1919, the Winchester Company was having financial difficulties and the value of her stocks decreased from ten million to about 3.75 million dollars.
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During the construction of their home on Prospect Hill, the Winchesters embraced learning about architecture and design. Architecture and design became life-long hobbies for Sallie, who also learned about real estate investment and financial strategies from William and her father-in-law.
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September 1922, Winchester was driven from her home in Atherton to Llanada Villa to be closer to her doctor, who lived in San Jose. She died on Tuesday, September 5, 1922. She was buried in New Haven at Evergreen Cemetery beside her husband, William and her daughter, Annie.
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1880 and 1885, she earned dividends from the stock, which averaged $ 7,900 annually. With the death of her mother-in-law, Jane Winchester, in 1898, Sallie inherited a further 2,000 shares of Winchester Repeating Arms Company stock that was then worth about $ 400 per share.
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put in a skylight; Then I had to have plastering done and as that could not well be done in the heat which succeeded, I had to wait for cooler weather; then I became rather worn and tired out and dismissed all the work-men to take such rest as I might through the winter.
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She did all the drawings and design but did not have an overall plan. She worked room by room. If she was unhappy with the results, she would tear the section down to rebuild, or abandon it for a while before returning to work on it again. The result was a rambling maze.
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Within the first six months, Ignoffo estimates that the house had increased in size to twenty-six rooms. She attended Expositions that inspired her interior and exterior design. As was typical of the time, the design included much ornamentation, including a statue of
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Incorrect rumors spread about Winchester's houseboat, stating that she purchased the boat after the earthquake for fear of a biblical flood. This is incorrect since she purchased the houseboat two years prior to the earthquake because they were popular at the time.
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beach by a well-known contractor at the time." Winchester successfully sued the contractor for back rent, property damage, and stolen property. After the death of Carroll in 1909 at the age of fifty, Winchester lost interest in the canal project.
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visited the Santa Clara Valley and Winchester did not invite him to visit her despite the president knowing who her husband, Will, was and having recommended him to be added to a memorial list of Historic Families of America in Washington D.C.
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In 1893, Winchester's youngest sister, Estelle Pardee Gerard, became ill. She was moved from San Francisco to Llanada Villa with the hope that the dryer climate would improve her health. It did not, and in January 1894, Gerard died from
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Because of building material shortages due to the Civil War, the two lived with William's parents on Court Street, New Haven. They hoped to build their own home on Prospect Hill. After the war, in 1866, the new home began construction.
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Winchester has become known for the construction of Llanada Villa which was built to trap sprits and ghosts that she thought were following her. Six months after her death, the home was turned into a tourist attraction now known as the
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It is unknown if Winchester was at Llanada Villa during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that caused tremendous damage to the building. Just prior to the earthquake, based on letters to her lawyer Leib, Winchester was at her home in
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In 1889 William Converse, the then president of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and Winchester's financial advisor, died. Winchester decided to look after her own finances from that point on and hired Leib as her lawyer.
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Mrs. Winchester was a sane and clear headed woman as I have ever known, and she had a better grasp of business and financial affairs than most men. The commonly believed supposition that she had hallucinations is all bunk.
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opened as an attraction in 1923, the owners chose to embrace and expand upon the rumors and stories that had been in print and discussed by the community. These stories have persisted and been written about extensively.
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In 1907, Winchester purchased a home at 44 Inglewood Lane that became her full time home. This home was so attractive, a photo of it was featured in the program for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915.
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In 1893 the stock market collapsed and many banks failed. While Winchester lost money on her investments, because she was very conservative with her decisions, she never suffered serious financial trouble.
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sew, though the newspapers reported that she was close to death. At this time Winchester hired Henrietta Sivera to act as a nurse and secretary. She remained a trusted employee until Winchester's death.
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published in a local newspaper expressing her anger, and rebuking him for lying. She accused him of only focusing on her in his campaign because she was a woman unable to vote. McGraw lost the election.
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Her staff, friends and family were unhappy with the rumors surrounding Winchester and her house and the Carroll's were distressed that Winchester's house was turned into a haunted tourist attraction.
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Francisco. In addition, she supplied housing on the property for Carroll's family. She hired local people to staff the house and farm, many of whom were from Europe, China and, later, Japan.
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She focused on her construction project instead of giving in to local rumors and insults. She kept tradespeople working during the many years the house was constructed. The house is
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On June 15, 1866, Sallie gave birth to a baby girl they named Annie Pardee Winchester, in honor of William's late sister, who had died during childbirth. The child suffered from
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IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM WIRT WINCHESTER THIS ANNEX OF THE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL TO BE USED FOR THE CARE OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM TUBERCULOSIS WAS ERECTED AND ENDOWED BY HIS WIFE
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any products. In addition, Winchester was not in San Jose but was in San Mateo preparing for her niece, Marian "Daisy" Merriman's wedding to Frederick A. Marriott III.
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The houseboat remained unscathed after the San Francisco earthquake. Winchester and the Marriotts lived in the houseboat while repairs were made to their properties.
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By 1898, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company was profitable again. Winchester added William's portion of company stock when her mother in law died the same year.
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partly due to the constant construction. The only family member to live with her was her niece Maria "Daisy" Merriman who moved in when she was twenty-one in 1890.
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Sarah Lockwood Pardee was the fifth child and fourth daughter born to parents Leonard and Sarah Pardee (née Burns) in the summer of 1839 at 29 Orange Street in
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By 1920, Winchester rarely left her home, shopping for clothing and material via mail order or having store employees bring purchases out to her in her car.
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The gardens were filled with ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers. It is estimated that Winchester had plants from over 110 countries in the villa gardens.
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After 1896, Winchester added stories to the then two story home. In some areas the home was five stories high and she added a seven-story tower that the
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Along with her sisters, her reins-man who drove her carriages, Frank Carroll accompanied Winchester to California. Once in California, Winchester found
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Winchester was successful with her real estate purchases, real estate investments and financial strategies that she sustained or improved her wealth.
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when she was a year old. The name Lockwood was Pardee's father's longtime friend Lockwood Sanford who was a well-known New England wood engraver.
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and died within a month of her birth. The couple was devastated and withdrew from society, with Sallie remaining secluded for nearly a year.
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The house was completed in 1868, was approximately 20,000 square feet, had over twenty rooms with marble floors, decorative fireplaces and
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sister Belle Merriman's animal rights activism, and is known to have chastised a boy who sought permission to hunt robins on her property.
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After Frank Carroll's sudden death, Winchester purchased a home for and continued to financially support Carroll's wife and children.
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The windows, which are pastel-colored, asymmetrically designed and sharply bevelled, were initially believed to be made by
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Edward "Ned" Rambo, the San Francisco agent for the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, showed Winchester properties in the
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After the loss of so many family members and after a physician recommended the dryer and warmer climate for her worsening
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Winchester's father was a skilled craftsman who had established a mill and wood shop called Leonard Pardee & Company.
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Winchester, over time, increased the size of her property around Llanada Villa from the original 45 acres to 160 acres.
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intelligent and kind. None of her former employees, servants or relatives ever claimed she was mad or superstitious.
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was purchased for $ 12,570 from John Hamm by Winchester in 1886 and was situated on a forty-five acre ranch in the
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Because most were unaware of her philanthropy, the press and those who did not know her viewed her as miserly.
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Between 1880 and 1881, Sallie lost three close family members. Her mother died in May 1880, her father-in-law,
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after Winchester's death her home was opened as a tourist attraction. Brown purchased the property in 1931.
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After the loss of so many family members, Sallie spent time at the seashore, followed by a trip to Europe.
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Pardee lived with her family on Brown Street from 1853, when she was 14, until 1862 when she was married.
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Winchester mostly avoided politics but on one occasion she became vocal. In 1902, a candidate for
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Winchester was an independent thinker who was not as social as her siblings as a teenager.
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The rumors painted her as mentally unstable, filled with superstition, guilt and fear.
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In 1908, the first mention of angry spirits haunting Winchester appeared in the
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The Construction of the home was often delayed or stopped for months at a time.
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design elements. The original color was blue, but was later changed to yellow.
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outdoor flower boxes. She installed an annunciator, a common, early version of
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Statement by Roy Leib, son of Winchester's lawyer, Frank Leib, summer, 1925
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In June 1869, Sallie’s father died, at the age of sixty, possibly from
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to attend the dedication ceremony. The hospital became part of the
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44 stairs that rise ten feet to accommodate Winchester's arthritis
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despite being treated by Winchester's personal physician, Meade.
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the property. The horse business venture was not successful.
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who became her personal physician, until Meade died in 1895.
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Official dedication for the William Wirt Winchester Hospital
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who amassed great wealth after the death of her husband,
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overseeing the dredging of a canal for her houseboat.
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Index

Sarah Lockwood Winchester

New Haven, Connecticut
San Jose, California
Winchester Mystery House
William Wirt Winchester
heiress
William Wirt Winchester
Winchester Mystery House
New Haven
Connecticut
cholera

American Civil War
William Wirt Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
marasmus
chandeliers
plasterwork
rheumatoid arthritis
Oliver Winchester
tuberculosis
rheumatoid arthritis
Homer Sprague
Euthanasia Meade
Santa Clara Valley

Winchester Mystery House
Santa Clara Valley
Llanada Alavasa

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