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It was estimated that that it took around $5 million to build and, let's say, modify - just shy of $73 million today - but it only ended up going for a paltry $35,000, which today is a bit more than half a million dollars.
Winchester was prompted by a 'spirit message' prophesying her death soon after her home was finally completed, was founded on fact, will never be known."Įight months later, in June 1923, Winchester's house was bought at auction. "Whether the continuing changes were made to gratify the whims of an eccentric or whether the much credited rumor that Mrs. Two days later, she was again described as a "strange and interesting figure": "Shortly after her coming west, more than 30 years ago," the article read, "she received, she thought, a message from the 'spirit world' saying that she must build a mansion and that should the sound of the hammers ever cease she would die." Headlines flared, mostly at first about her fortune and what her estate would do with it (it was donated to the General Hospital Society of New Haven, Conn., near where she grew up), as well as what would happen to the house itself.īut, toward the end of each article, Winchester was described usually as "a figure of mystery" inexorably attached to the peculiar house.Ī month after her death, on October 7, 1922, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on her beliefs. Not much more was written about the heiress until after her death, at which point rumors began to spread about the reasons behind the twisty, labyrinthine home in which she resided. (Perhaps she escaped their grasp by disappearing through a secret door?)
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