Stairs lead to nowhere floors have doors and windows in them doors open into solid walls.
And in fact, that’s pretty much what happened. The entire house seems to have been randomly assembled, disassembled, and reassembled numerous times, with no master plan or design. What makes it most interesting, though, is what it doesn’t have-any rhyme or reason. The Winchester House has 160 rooms, with a total of more than 10,000 windows, 2,000 doors, 52 skylights, 47 fireplaces, 40 bedrooms, 40 staircases, 6 kitchens, 3 elevators, 2 basements, 1 shower, and 349.7 other impressive-sounding numerical statistics. But once inside, you forget all about that. Tickets are surprisingly expensive, and there’s sometimes a long wait for your guided tour to begin. But the interior of the building and the story of its construction are bizarre and fascinating. It’s pretty, though not particularly shocking. Our House Is a Very, Very, Very Strange Houseįrom the outside, the building appears to be nothing more than a sprawling Victorian mansion surrounded by meticulously groomed gardens, soothing fountains, and lots of tour buses. The Winchester Mystery House is undeniably interesting, though whether it lives up to its hype is another question. Even after reading a brochure about the house, I didn’t quite grasp what it was all about until I visited for myself. When I first lived in northern California, these signs puzzled me. About five miles (8km) from downtown, the Winchester Mystery House draws huge crowds almost every day of the year for a simple walking tour of what may be the country’s strangest residential building.Įveryone in the Bay Area seems to know about the Winchester House, to the extent that billboards advertising the attraction don’t give any information other than its name. But San Jose’s biggest tourist attraction was built long before computers made their mark on the area. It’s an attractive small city with some excellent museums, parks, and restaurants.
Lots of high-tech companies are based in or near San Jose, and of the dozens of times I’ve been there, all but one or two were for a technology-related conference of one sort or another. San Jose, California-about an hour’s drive south of San Francisco-is the unofficial center of Silicon Valley.
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