Overholser Project

This is the front view of the Overholser Mansion. It is very nice. This is the side view, from the carriage house.

I had never been there before, but it is really neat! They are open to the public and give tours tues-sat. The cost is $3, If you have never been there, you should check it out! If you haven't ever learned about Henry Overholse, it's pretty interesting. Overholser, Shartel, Classen and Colocord were all instrumental in getting Oklahoma City up and flourishing. Here are some views inside the house!

We started out at the mansion, the kids were supposed to be there at 9:30am and each group was stationed in a different part of the house. The kids were going to break off into small groups and visit each of us. We also had a group out in the carriage house that were going to teach the Charleston, play games from the early 1900's and make a stainglass project.

Here I am with my classmate Lori. This was before I got my big floppy hat on. I was the nanny, and she was Mrs. Overholser.
This was in the carriage house, before we made it into the mansion. We got ready in the carriage house.

This was our group from 1915, and the 2 girls from the 1940's group. We are standing in front of the parlor, where we were supposed to do our presentation. Our group consisted of Mrs. Overholser, Mrs. Classen, Mrs. Shartel and then me, the nanny!

Here are the maids, the girls from the 1910's who were teaching the Charleton and games, and the flappers from the 1920's!

The maids again

The cooks, who were the 1930's group inside the house. This is in the kitchen, and that is the actual stove from the 1900's! The house isn't so much restored, it is preserved, almost everything in it is exactly how the Overholser family left it.

Here are the 1940's & the 1930's groups!

Here are the 1940's girls in one of the bedrooms upstairs

At about 9:45, the kids hadn't shown up, and the lady who runs the place (who was a bit unorganized it seemed) told us that the kids didn't get thier permission slips, so they couldn't leave the school. So we would be going to them. Instead of working inside the house, with props and such to make it easy to act, and working with small groups of children, we now were going to the school auditorium in front of all the kids at once. We didn't do as well as we could have, but it still went ok.


Here is my group, we went first since we were 1915. We talked about the men who started oklahoma city, and oklahoma history and what was going on at the time. We borrowed one of the other girls, who was dressed up as Henry (the daughter) and she sat on the stage as our prop, since I was her nanny. I got to talk about her and what she was doing as a 10 year old in 1915. Now I have my big floppy hat on!

Then the 1920's flappers went, then the 1930's cooks, then the 1940's girls. Then they broke the group in half and some went upstairs to the library to do the stained glass project with the maids, and the rest stayed in the gym and learned how to dance the charleston and learned some of the games kids played back then. It was a big chaotic, but it was alot of fun and I am so glad that I got the opportunity to participate in it! It sure beats taking a final!!