copperbadge:scifigrl47:whitmerule:seperis:ladyvyola:Now thru April 7th - free virtual tour of the Wi
copperbadge:scifigrl47:whitmerule:seperis:ladyvyola:Now thru April 7th - free virtual tour of the Winchester Mystery House!Oh. Hell. Yes.@ruvyru@copperbadgeThis makes my HEART HAPPY. The Winchester Mystery House is my favorite tourist trap in the entire world and on top of being just the kitschiest is also a beautiful, wonderful work of architecture, surrounded by lovely gardens. Whenever anyone visited us in California from out of state we’d drag them there, so I must have been on the tour at least a dozen times before the age of eighteen.This is all the better because I haven’t been back since new scholarship has revealed that Sarah Winchester definitely wasn’t deranged or suckered by some random tale of Native American vengeance, and probably wasn’t even all that into the occult. As wonderful as the spookiness of it all is, there’s an even better story behind the Mystery House. We’re now seeing evidence that Sarah Winchester was, in fact, a very frustrated architect who was learning by doing after having her passions stifled for half her life by being A Woman In History, compounded with damage done by the 1906 earthquake. If Sarah Winchester nee Pardee had been born a man, the name Pardee might well fall amongst Burnham and Wright as one of America’s early starchitects. I strongly recommend the podcast and article at History Chicks for a fascinating new take on her life and work. -- source link
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