"Oliver Fisher Winchester was an entrepreneur who made a fortune in the shirt manufacturing business during the 1830s and 1840s. He took over a bankrupt arms manufacturing company in New Heven, Connectucut in 1857, which eventually became the Winchester Repeating Arms Company."
The Winchester Historic Firearms and Antique Products Museums

Mr. Oliver's olny son William marries Sarah Lockwood Pardee.
This gallery is NOT about Mr. W. Winchester's house, but about his wife's Mrs. Sarah Winchester, who after the death of her child and housband moved to San Jose, California with her huge inheritance, purchased an unfinished eight room farm house and began to remodeling it into the present 160 room monster house. The work lasted for 38 continuous years, until her death on September 5, 1922.
For information on Winchester Mystery House, please click the link [ http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/
For more information on Sarah's biography, please click the link [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Winchester

The pictures begin with our driving out of Salinas to San Jose, few pictures of the city, The House, more pictures of the city and our return back to Salinas.