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The real reason the house has such a strange layout is because a massive earthquake caused severe damage to the home, and rather than rebuild it all, Sarah decided to just fill in the spaces, thus creating doorways to nothing and stairwells to ceilings. She was a really creative and great woman who had a passion for design, and she treated her caretakers and maids very kindly, often implementing features to the home to help assist them around her huge manor. She's a woman I greatly appreciate in history.
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A part of the reason why the mansion looks the way it does is because Sarah built it during the depression. She knew if she stopped building once she finished the work she wanted done, the construction crew would be out of work and there wasn't any more jobs out there for them. Much of what doesn't make sense was made during that time. She was also known to be a very good and considerate employer. payed her staff better than anyone else and ensured people had the time off they needed, something few employers did at the time. I firmly believe the house is haunted, but not because of unrestful spirits, but because those who reside there were happy there. By all accounts, she was a very kind and considerate person so I don't see a reason to fear her spirits if she is there. I imagine she'd be happy to have people visit her home now as it as a museum means the home continues to create and maintain jobs. She was the last of the truly philanthropic millionaires.
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For the debrief: I love me a good ghost story, but I always think it's worth mentioning that any reporting on her being ~haunted by ghosts~ came well after she was building anything. No reporting at the time ever talks about it. She just got a bunch of money and had an interest in architecture!! She also paid her workers well, gave them food and housing, worker's comp, hired from the community (girl boss behavior). But it's also speculated stairs lead into walls because things were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and had to just be boarded up! Shrimply put we need more women in STEM (Strange architecture, Tenuous grasp of training in building design, Enigmatic blueprints, Making a good living and work environment for laborers)
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This episode was sponsored by Disney's Haunted Mansion, in theaters July 28th. Get tickets now: fandango.com/HauntedMansion
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