525 S. Winchester Blvd., San Jose, California. County/parish: Santa Clara.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 07, 1974. NRIS 74000559.
1 contributing building.
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 William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's death in 1922. The Victorian and Gothic-style mansion is renowned for its size and its architectural curiosities and for the numerous myths and legends surrounding the structure and its former owner.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861826