
Real Haunted Houses: Winter Place
Winter Place was constructed between 1850 and 1870 and is located in Montgomery, Alabama. The North House was the home of Joseph S. Winter and his family, and is the earliest of the constructions. The second building, the South House, was built in the 1870s and was the home of Joseph’s daughter, Sally Gindrat Winter Thorington, and her husband Robert D. Thorington.
Sally lived in the South House until her death in 1935. The house passed on to her daughter, Bessie May Thorington. Upon her passing in 1948, her nephew Joseph Winter Thorington Jr. inherited the house. Joseph Winter Thorington Jr. purchased the North House (which had been sold outside the family), and he subsequently converted the two houses into apartments. Winter Place was used as an apartment complex until the mid-1990s when it was damaged during a series of hurricanes.
The complex was added to the Alabama Historical Commission’s Places in Peril list in 2004 after several decades of neglect. In 2018, the properties were sold to Benjamin Blanchard, a real-estate tycoon, who is now renovating the South House to be used as his own personal residence. The North House will also be renovated in the future.
He may need to accomodate some unexpected guests every now and then, considering that supposedly, the Winters are still inhabiting the property. At least, their spirits are. According to the legends surrounding Winter Place, a Confederate soldier who was buried in the cellar walls, is also still roaming about, although there is no evidence to support this.
Ghosts or not, the buildings are hauntingly beautiful, and hopefully the renovation works can restore them in their former glory.
Real Haunted Houses
Previously in this series:
- Real Haunted Houses: Franklin Castle
- Real Haunted Houses: Villesca Axe Murder House
- Real Haunted Houses: The Sallie House
- Real Haunted Houses: LaLaurie House
- Real Haunted Houses: The Bell Witch Farm
- Real Haunted Houses: Ann Starrett Mansion
- Real Haunted Houses: Sturdivant Hall
- Real Haunted Houses: Whaley House
- Real Haunted Houses: House of Seven Gables
- Real Haunted Houses: Woodruff Fontaine House
- Real Haunted Houses: Cedar Grove Mansion
- Real Haunted Houses: Sauer Castle
- Real Haunted Houses: The Pink Palace
- Real Haunted Houses: House of Death
- Real Haunted Houses: Joshua Ward House
- Real Haunted Houses: The Lemp Mansion
- Real Haunted Houses: Los Feliz Murder Mansion
- Real Haunted Houses: Winchester Mystery House
- Real Haunted Houses: Bliss Mansion
- Real Haunted Houses: Croke-Patterson Mansion
- Real Haunted Houses: Thornewood Castle
- Real Haunted Houses: Drish House
- Real Haunted Houses: Old Shelby Hotel
- Real Haunted Houses: Barker’s Slave Quarters
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