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inches high. It's difficult to negotiate more
than one stair at a time, however, because
each stair is so wide. One staircase has 44
steps, makes 10 turns to attain an eleva-
tion of 10 feet. In addition to the stair-
ways, there are three elevators.
Some of the 47 fireplaces are without
chimneys, other chimneys are not connected
with anything. Many of the hundreds of
doors with t~ick knobs open to blank walls,
some open mto space. Ornamental posts
are installed upside dGwn.
• There are trapdoors in the floors, secret
passageways between the walls. The house
has its own heating, lighting, water and
sewer system.
One hall has four fireplaces side by side.
Several times as many rooms were built
and then destroyed as now survive, neigh-
bors said. It took workers three years to
lay a parquetry floor which was ripped up
the day after it was completed.
Guides tell spooky rumors of spirit con-
trol, of a seance room where Mrs. Winches-
ter, dressed in ceremonial satin robes, com-
muned with spirits.
Though the whole place just doesn't
make sense to visitors, many of the thin11:s
that mark Mrs. Winchester as an eccentric
are explained as sensible by those who
knew her well.
"Mrs. Winchester was as sane and clear-
headed a woman as I have ever known,"
R. C. Leib, her attorney for many years,
declared after her will was probated.
"She had a better grasp of business and
financial affairs than most men. The com-
monly believed suppositions are all bunk."
Leib said she did not hire a single car-
penter after her house was damaged by the
1906 earthquake.
The vast size of her house, he said, was
due to her desire to provide accommoda-
tions for her many relatives who she
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thought would come to California to visit
her.
"Mrs. Winchester secluded herself from
people only during the last years of her
life," he said, "because she was very sensi-
tive about deformities in her limbs and
wished to avoid comment. Before she con•
tracted the ailment she traveled about and
mingled in society as any other normal per-
son would."
A plumber who worked for Mrs. Win-
chester for 30 years, E. F . Wolters, said
that building was her he1bby, just as others
had hobbies of collecting stamps, polo
ponies, or first editions.
Mrs. Winchester suffered from neuritis
the last ten years or so of her life, Wolters
explained, which made it difficult for her to
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climb stairs-thus the small steps.
Where doors open into blank walls, he
said, she decided to change a room and
had the wall built across the other side of
a door which was not to be used.
So annoyed was Mrs. Winchester with a
newspaper story that told of her rumored
belief that she would live as long as she
heard the pounding of hammers that she
quit building once and didn't resume con-
struction for a year, Wolters said.
Other sources said that a niece, Margaret
Marriot, was the only person to share Mrs.
Winchester's company, that the eccentric
builder hid from most of her servants and
often wore a veil.
A news story that appeared in 1908 said
that scarcely half a dozen persons had seen
her in as many years.
The story is told that President Theodore
Roosevelt, who tried to call on her, was not
even admitted to the grounds.
Whatever the truth of the stories about
her, the house she left behind her stands
today as the world's most unusual me-
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been in production practically ever since.
While we've tried to follow our policy of
building enough at a time to keep a stock
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machine has been so large and insistent
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