Stairs without a destinationSourced
An earthquake helps explain some of the odd architecture
California’s Winchester Mystery House is known for dead-end stairs and unusual doors. The 1906 earthquake damaged towers and upper sections; removing the wreckage left some features without their former destinations. Changes to the building provide context alongside its ghost stories.
A strange doorway can be a trace of what is no longer there.
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