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Winchester Mystery House

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The Winchester Mystery House is a sprawling Victorian and Gothic-style mansion at 525 South Winchester Boulevard in San Jose, California, built in stages between 1884 and 1906 for Sarah Winchester, widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. Continuous construction under her direction produced a maze of stairways, rooms and passages; at its largest the house held around 500 rooms, and at her death in 1922 it still had 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, 10,000 windows, 47 stairways and 47 fireplaces. It opened as a tourist attraction nine months after her death and has been operated by descendants of its later buyers since 1963, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building Type
Mansion 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
San Jose, United States 2
Completed Year
1884 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Mansion 1
Connections

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Mansion, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Gothic Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Winchester Mystery House (Wikipedia)
Victorian Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Winchester Mystery House (Wikipedia)

Uses Element

Timber, Architectural Materials
Source Winchester Mystery House (Wikipedia)
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Sources
1. Winchester Mystery House (Wikipedia)
  • Winchester Mystery House, Sarah Winchester section
    Winchester purchased the property (from John Hamm) which included a two-story, eight-room farmhouse.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    The Winchester Mystery House is a sprawling Victorian and Gothic-style mansion at 525 South Winchester Boulevard in San Jose, California, built in stages between 1884 and 1906 for Sarah Winchester, widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. Continuous construction under her direction produced a maze of stairways, rooms and passages; at its largest the house held around 500 rooms, and at her death in 1922 it still had 160 rooms, 2,000 doors, 10,000 windows, 47 stairways and 47 fireplaces. It opened as a tourist attraction nine months after her death and has been operated by descendants of its later buyers since 1963, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field
    completion_date/completed = 1884-1906
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field
    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 her 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 surround
  • In Style: Victorian Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Victorian, Gothic
  • In Style: Gothic Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Victorian, Gothic
  • Uses Element: Timber, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Wooden houses in the United States
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2. Winchester Mystery House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: San Jose, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: San Jose, United States
Wikidata item Q608039, property P131/P17 (location): San Jose, United States
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