Monday, October 26, 2026

Question: Sarah Winchester’s San Jose mansion is famous for staircases that run into ceilings and doors that open onto steep drops. Roughly how many rooms does the Winchester Mystery House have?

Answer: About 160. Construction ran for 38 years, until Winchester’s death in 1922, and the house’s new owners kept coming up with different room counts before settling on roughly 160 after five years of renovations. Today’s tours cover 110 of them.