The Victorian Aesthetic Legacy of Sarah Winchester

Winchester Mystery House Exterior

One of America’s most famous mansions may draw crowds for the invisible occupants, but the real magnificence is in the visible: those Victorian-era architectural trimmings. After all, the Winchester Mystery House has preserved items that pre-date, and survived the 1906 earthquake.

A Victorian Christmas Tradition

Victorian Christmas Storage Room

Did you know that some of our most cherished Christmas customs arose in the Victorian era, when Sarah Winchester was a girl growing up in Connecticut? The shimmering Christmas tree, the warm exchange of Christmas cards, hanging stockings by the fire—each of these traditions has its own special story. The Christmas Tree The Christmas tree […]