The central gardens (picture 82)

Although Mrs Winchester could be viewed to be as nutty as a fruit cake, she built an amazing house, and she provided a lot of investment for the surrounding area by her spending. The house, and its estate, originally spanned into a good deal of what you could see from the top room in the picture. Her emmense income from her husbands company managed to provide for her quite comfortably for years. The most expensive window in the building was paid for by a days royalties from the company.