Sarah L. Winchester arrived in the Santa Clara Valley with nearly $20,000,000 and began quietly adding rooms to a small country farmhouse three miles west of San Jose. One hundred years later, after a massive restoration of the Winchester House and Gardens that began as a tribute to America’s and San Jose’s Bicentennials, the Winchester Estate was once again the showplace of the valley. Though the “Lady of Mystery” died in 1922, these events were believed to have allowed her, in her own way, to achieve a unique kind of eternal life.