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Re: Mystery House Commentary: The Oriental Bedrooms

jezkarabit — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:06:03 -0000

the name "Marion Merriot" also contain 13 letters.

Re: Mystery House Commentary: Venetian Dining Room

Kelsey Baker — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:21:01 -0000

I want to thank you for your effort on relaying info about Sarah Winchester's obsession and life's work. I just recently discovered the Winchester mansion and wanted to know more about it and I found this site through the images search on Google. I wish there was more information about the closed off rooms though. Don't your employers mind that you're using your access as a guide to publish info on the web?
It would be neat if there was a site like this for the Mutter Museum. The official site only has pictures of some of the rooms and doesn't have a lot of descriptions.
This is probably the most I will ever see of the mansion and I appreciate how thoroughly you describe the rooms. It's not the same as getting to walk through and see it myself though. : (

Re: Mystery House Commentary: Venetian Dining Room

catic15 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:25:30 -0000

Interesting narrative - thanks! My own experience with the house may be of interest. In the early 70's, I went to Notre Dame High School, a Catholic girl's school housed in a building in downtown San Jose of similar vintage to the Winchester house. Being a girl's school, our school plays had to import boys from Bellarmine, and one year the cast included the son of the resident caretaker/manager and a number of boys who worked with him as tourguides for the house. This was well before the rennovations and restorations of the last 25 years.

After the last production of the school play, the cast were invited over to the house to hold our cast party. There must have been 30-40 teenagers romping through the house that night, from about 11:00 till well after 2 a.m., including some places that I've never seen on subsequent tours of the house and I'm fairly sure are completely off-limits to the public. The room I remember best could only be reached by walking along a narrow catwalk that went along a ridgeline of one section of the roof - there was no other door or entry that we knew of into the room - and was multi-sided. I remember it as octagonal, but it wouldn't surprise me if it had a different number of sides.

I've always been fascinated with "urban archeology", and I suspect there's still a wealth of information that could be gleaned from the building.

Re: Mystery House Commentary: Venetian Dining Room

strangetastic — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:36:57 -0000

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