5 to mark the 100th anniversary of her death.
The Winchester Mystery House is getting a jump on that centennial with multiple events, starting with a celebration of Winchester’s life on Sept. Sarah Winchester is seen here in an undated photo in front of her San Jose estate, which would open as a tourist attraction on June 30, 1923. (Tickets for that one are $250 each, and for that price, there better be some ghosts). After dark, a special event will feature medium James Van Praagh leading groups through the estate in an attempt to connect with its former owner and any spirits that may still reside there. Tour guests - go to for tickets - will receive a commemorative card and are encouraged to leave flowers, cards and other mementos - but nothing with a flame - in the front gardens that day. Winchester with a celebration of life on Monday, kicking off a string of events leading up to its own centennial. The sprawling tourist attraction, which opened in 1923 just months after her death, is commemorating Mrs. While she had a large impact on the valley and the Peninsula - Southern Pacific purchased from her 140 acres of land to create Los Altos - her most visible legacy is the 160-room mansion she owned in San Jose, called Llanda Villa in her day and known now as the Winchester Mystery House. And she has continued to fascinate us, some might say haunt us, in the century since. Sarah Winchester - heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune and owner of the Santa Clara Valley’s most interesting home - died Sept.
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