America's Castles - California Dreamers: The Winchester Mystery House and Scotty's Castle
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedBrand: A and E Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- Not surprisingly, two of America's most unusual mansions are in California. Visit the Winchester House and Scotty's Castle in this mysterious AMERICA'S CASTLES. One of the strangest homes ever built, the Winchester House is the product of Sara Pardee Winchester's superstition. The heiress to the fortune of the famed gun maker believed that she had to build a home for the spirits
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DVD Review: Inside look at some eccentric buildings
Summary: 4 Stars
I love the America's Castles series - and wish that A&E would continue to produce quality programming like this instead of the many tacky reality series that now make up their programming like Family Jewels and Storage Wars.
"California Dreamers" concentrates on two homes - the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California and Scotty's Castle in Palm Desert, taking viewers on an inside view of both of them. Of the two, the Winchester story is the more fascinating.
Legend has it that Sarah Winchester, heir to the Winchester rifle fortune, feared the spirits of all the people who were killed by Winchester rifles and thought that she would find peace and eternal life if she continued to build a sprawling home filled with endless staircases and doors (often leading to nowhere) windows (sone in the middle of a room and facing the floor), and ornamental turrets and observation decks, often in competing architectural styles. Construction abruptly stopped upon her death, and many materials still in the attic prove that her building had no end in sight.
Scotty's Castle by contrast is more of a spanish-style villa than a mansion, and the man behind the building, eccentric con artist Walter Edward Scott, is the more fascinating subject, which is interesting since the home was actually built and owned by businessman Albert Johnson, Scott's friend and one time victim. The home hosted many Holywood parties in the 1920's, and the depression halted additional construction on the home. Despite their rocky start, the two remained life long friends, and in Johnson's will, he requested that Scott be allowed to remain living in the home until his death (he is buried on site).
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