| Daily Oklahoman, The
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
September 7, 2008
Goodholm House (added 1983 - Building - #83002099)
3101 W. Gen. Pershing Blvd., Oklahoma City
| Historic
Significance: |
Architecture/Engineering |
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Architect, builder, or engineer: |
Moore, J. L., Leedy, J.
H. |
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Architectural Style: |
Queen Anne |
| Area of
Significance: |
Architecture
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| Period of
Significance: |
1875-1899 |
| Owner:
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Local Gov't
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| Historic
Function: |
Domestic |
| Historic
Sub-function: |
Single Dwelling
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| Current
Function: |
Recreation And Culture
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| Current
Sub-function: |
Museum |
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source:
http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/OK/Oklahoma/state.html
Andrew Goodholm House
10735 NE 23rd Street
Oklahoma City, OK
February 2014
image source
National Register of
Historic Places, picture taken in 1982 when located at State
Fair Park
National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form
Construction was started in 1899 by Andrew
Goodholm, born in Filipstad, Sweden in 1861; one of the first millers in Oklahoma City. He was also
a city councilman, builder, developer, lumber dealer and an
officer of the first packing plant. Goodholm was organizer of
the Acme Milling Company, an early flour mill, and headed a
company that built the original Sears Roebuck & Company store
which has been demolished by urban renewal for the Myriald
Gardens in 1970s. As a director of the
Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, Goodholm had a hand in early
development of several industries in the city and state. He
served two terms on the City Council.
Goodholm’s house later was acquired by another
builder, the late Manzy Leon Jones. Jones and his wife,
Gracelyne, owned the house from 1955 until it was sold in 1977
to Fentriss Sound Company. James Fentriss was eager to have the
house preserved and offered it to any group which agreed to move
and restore it to its original splendor. In the event there were
no takers, the building was to be razed to make room for
commercial development. Sandy Saunders, State Fair President,
proposed moving the house to the Fairgrounds for preservation
and to illustrate an example of life in the Capitol City at the
turn of the century
Goodholm left Oklahoma City in 1918 for
Stillwater where he took over the
Stillwater Milling Company and introduces its Good Holm
Flour brand.
source: Oklahoma Newspaper Archives, September17, 1995, pg 220
 Goodholm
Park, 2701 N Robinson, Oklahoma City, OK
Goodholm Park is located on the west side of
Robinson Avenue, bordered by N. W. 27th Street on the north and
Harvey Avenue on the west, Jefferson Park District.
This is a neighborhood park, which has off-road
parking off Robinson. There is a nice set of playground
equipment, and a pavilion with cooking facilities. Five tennis
courts are located at the south end of the park.
The park is named for Andrew Goodholm a Swedish
immigrant to the Indian Territory. He was the owner of Acme
Flour Milling Company and later an Oklahoma City councilman and
Director of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.
Sunday, September 16, 1990
Author:
Peggy Gandy
THE stately Andrew Goodholm
mansion has now been fully restored and
refurbished.
The house, which was in a state of
deterioration when it was given to the fair
in 1979 by businessman James
Fentriss, has patiently sat on the
fairgrounds all these years, waiting on its
facelift completion.
Built in 1901, the house will be shown this
fall as a historical restoration project of
the State Fair of Oklahoma.
The entire house, including the newly
decorated second floor which was not open
last year, will be open to the public.
Volunteers from 14 Oklahoma City area
chapters and several surrounding community
chapters of the National Society Daughters
of the American Revolution, will serve as
docents. The DAR chapters also are
responsible for coordinating the room
furnishings.
Docents conducting the tours through the
home will wear Victorian-style clothing.
The house will be open to the public from
noon to 10 pm Monday through Thursday, and
from 10 am to 1 pm Friday through Sunday,
during the run of the fair. Tickets will be
sold at the door for $1 per person.
November 23, 1989
the Goodholm house in 1931 when it was at 211
NE 4.
1970s - Tinker Air Force Base placed a B-47 on display in 1971,
followed with a B-52. The Goodholm Mansion was
moved from the east side of Oklahoma City to the fairgrounds in
1979.
February 14, 1984
Albert Garver, owner of Albert Garver Metropolitan House Moving
Co., which moved the Victorian Goodholm mansion
from NE 4 to the state fairgrounds.
30 March 1983 Goodholm House added to National Register of
Historic Places.
April 20, 2008
Lucyl A. Shirk was born in Oklahoma City, April 15, 1919, to
John and Carrie Shirk, she has done volunteer work at the
Goodholm Mansion among many other facilities.
January 31, 1982
Last summer, a sunshine room was temporarily installed at the
historic Goodholm Mansion, a late 1890's
Victorian house moved to the Oklahoma City fairgrounds from
northeast Oklahoma City.
September 26, 1982
The house was literally picked from its original location at NE
4 and Walnut in Oklahoma City and moved, in several sections, to
the fairgrounds in 1979, to be restored and turned into a museum
of early statehood days.
Andrew Goodholm, a Swedish immigrant who
settled in Indian Territory, built the house on NE 4 in 1901.
Goodholm was a miller and later became a city
councilman and a director of the Oklahoma City Chamber of
Commerce.
His home was a three-story frame structure, with a round turret
rising all three stories. The top floor included a ballroom.
Around the outside a veranda, which held a porch swing during
the Goodholm family residency, circled half the
house.
By 1978, when the urban area of Oklahoma City had grown up and
was finally being torn down around the neighborhood, the
Goodholm house, having passed through a number of
owners and by then an apartment house, was in danger of being
razed. Owner Jim Fentriss, a local businessman, donated the
building to the State Fair.
The fair management accepted the building, valuing it as one of
the few remaining architectural examples of that period. It was
divided into several sections and lifted by crane onto trucks
and carried to the fairgrounds, where it was reassembled.
The roof, windows and railings have been restored, with
attention to authentic details of its period. The Oklahoma
Historical Society is helping raise funds for the restoration
and has advised on the project, with assistance from
Goodholm 's two daughters, residents of Stillwater.
The State Fair accepted the building with a view to renovating
and refurnishing it in authentic wallpaper, drapery and floor
coverings, period furnishings, and opening it for tours
(10/25/1904) The funeral of Agnes, the 2-year-old child of
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Goodholm, occurred Sunday.
April 22, 2007
1979: The three-story Victorian home, Goodholm
Mansion, is moved from the east side of Oklahoma City to the
fairgrounds, although it wasn't opened to fairgoers until 1989.
In 1980 it was the Decorators Show House for the Women's
Committee of the Oklahoma City Symphony.
1993-03 Architectural Style Queen Anne Street Address
3101 W. Gen. Pershing Blvd. [before being moved to NP]
look here
http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Goodholm_House
2008 Goodholm Mansion was moved to Harris
House Movers in Nicoma Park, OK on NE 23rd, where it was planned
to be turned back into a residence.
I was not able to read the District No. or the Enumeration
District,
Sources: good faith fair use of sources stated above
Compiled, transcribed and submitted by Marti Graham, Oklahoma County, OKGenWeb Coordinator,
January 2014. Information
posted for educational purposes for viewers and researchers. The contributor is not
related to nor researching any of the above.
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