The 1906 San Francisco earthquake caused a large amount of damage to the front portion of the house. “But, if you go down those first seven steps again, make a right turn and go down six more - making 13 stairs - you’d find yourself on the first floor.” “If you go down the first seven steps and back up the next 11 on the other side, you are still technically on the second floor - but you are 3 feet higher than where you started,” Carroll said. Winchester’s niece and secretary, Marian Marriott, which accesses three different levels of the house. Two particularly unique areas of the house are three adjoining rooms known as the “Hall of Fires” because they contain seven sources of heat - four fireplaces and three hot-air registers - and the “Seven Eleven Staircase” from the bedroom of Mrs. “Did you know that the perfect daisy has 13 petals?” Winchester used the daisy so much to decorate her house that we think it was her favorite flower,” Carroll said. Other aspects of the home gave additional hints about its mysterious creator. In addition, Winchester’s favorite spiritualistic motif - the spiderweb - can be seen throughout the house, as can her obsession with the number 13, particularly noticeable in the house’s 13th bathroom, which is accessed by 13 stairs and contains 13 windows. The staircase consists of 44 steps that travel 100 feet in length but rise only 9 feet to the second floor above. Because Winchester’s height was only 4 feet and 10 inches, she also built the house according to her size, with low doorways and unusual “easy riser” staircases, such as the “Switchback Stairway” that leads from the carriage house to the hay loft.
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