Posted on 10/30/2003 8:23:40 PM PST by chance33_98
The kids get in it, and really jumble them. On the good side, we have all these albums which we've had for 10 years, and really intend to get those shots organized.
Annie Palmer Lives!
The Winchester Mystery House Story
In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the lives of carpenters and craftsmen until her death thirty-eight years later. The Victorian mansion, designed and built by the Winchester Rifle heiress, is filled with so
many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House. Sarah Winchester built a home that is an architectural marvel. Unlike most homes of its era, this 160-room Victorian mansion had modern heating and sewer systems, gas lights that operated by pressing a button, three working elevators, and 47 fireplaces. From rambling roofs and exquisite hand inlaid parquet floors to the gold and silver chandeliers and Tiffany art glass windows, you will be impressed by the staggering amount of creativity, energy, and expense poured into each and every detail.
MANSION TOUR
Tour through 110 of the 160 rooms and look for the bizarre phenomena that gave the mansion its name; a window built into the floor, staircases leading to nowhere, a chimney that rises four floors, doors that open onto blank walls, and upside down posts! No one has been able to explain the mysteries that exist within the Winchester Mansion, or why Sarah Winchester kept the carpenters' hammers pounding 24 hours a day for 38 years. It is believed that after the untimely deaths of her baby daughter and husband, son of the Winchester Rifle manufacturer, Mrs. Winchester was convinced by a medium that continuous building would appease the evil spirits of those killed by the famous "Gun that Won the West" and help her attain eternal life. Certainly her $20,000,000 inheritance was sufficient to support her obsession until her death at 82!
Photo (above): The largest cabinet in the mansion goes straight through to the back thirty rooms of the mansion.
The fourth child of William and Annie Palmer, John, died. Mrs. Matilda Bradshaw, their cleaning lady, ran in to the Bell public house next door swearing that she would never go into Palmer's house again and that he'd 'done away' with another child. When she was asked how he'd done it she said that she had been upstairs with baby John when Palmer had come in and said that he would look after his son. She said she had gone down stairs when she suddenly heard Baby John screaming. After rushing upstairs she found the baby dead. She maintained that Palmer poisoned his children because he was heard to say that a growing family was too expensive for his slender purse and that he couldn't altogether blame providence for his children's deaths. Mrs. Bradshaw said he murdered them by dipping his finger in poison and then in honey and would make them suck his finger. She was asked if she had ever seen him do it and replied, "No, but I know it in my heart to be true". The death of Annie palmer is still a mystery as well. Suicide due to her husbands debt? Or cholera? She died at the age of 27 after giving birth to five children, four of which died.
I checked the properties, did a search and got this.
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