Please make sure to arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of your tour. The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate. If you will be visiting the Mystery Spot in a really large vehicle (RV's, buses, and really large trucks) please call us at (831) 423-8897 before you arrive so we can save you a parking space. The Mansion Tour includes a 65-minute guided walk through the interior, a self-guiding tour of the Victorian gardens and access to two museums displaying collections of Winchester rifles and other products made by the arms manufacturing company. Parking is 5.00 per vehicle and is payable upon arrival by cash or check only. The design was so complex-160 rooms, 2,000 doors, 13 bathrooms, 10,000 windows, 47 fireplaces, blind closets, secret passageways and 40 staircases-that the heiress and her servants needed maps to navigate their way around. Compare 1434 hotels near Winchester Mystery House in West San Jose using 19301 real guest reviews. Bristling with a multitude of gables and cupolas, the wooden structure was under continuous construction for 38 years until Winchester passed away in 1922.

(between I-280 and Stevens Creek Blvd.) This Victorian mansion's labyrinthine layout was designed to baffle the spirits that allegedly haunted Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Arms fortune and mistress of the house.

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