[ Home ] [ Back ]

Created 14 Feb 2009
Updated: 12 Feb 2014

 

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
Architect, builder, or engineer: Moore, J. L., Leedy, J. H.
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
Area of Significance: Architecture
Period of Significance: 1875-1899
Owner: Local Gov't
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-function: Single Dwelling
Current Function: Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function: Museum

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.

 

I hope you enjoy searching through our web site, as I've spent considerable time on it.
If you find other information on the web or elsewhere that might be appropriate for this page, please let me know.
I'm am particularly interested journals or other records of movement into Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
Site authored by Marti Graham, Coordinator
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
part of the OKGenWeb Project
Visitor: 
Home Page last updated: Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 09:43:58 EST
This page updated: 11 Nov 2023

  

Copyright © 1997-2015. NO PART may be reproduced without author's permission.

You found this information at //www.okgenweb.net/~okoklaho/bios-history/../_private/xfooter.htm