PEOPLE
ROOMS
PATTERNS & SYMBOLS
INSIDE & OUT
THIS & THAT
100
Name the Aunt who lived in the Gamble House.
Who is Aunt Julia.
100
This room is the smallest room in the house and has a private entrance allowing visitors access without going through the front door.
What is Mr. Gamble's Den.
100
Name the two symbols on the Gamble Family Crest featured on these lanterns.
What are the Rose and crane.
100
Why was there a moth or butterfly pendant around the Tiffany lamp in the living room?
This was used to shield your eyes from the glare of the newly invented electric light bulb.
100
What is another name for the fireplace area in the living room?
What is the Inglenook.
200
He is the youngest son of David and Mary Gamble and had sword pegs istalled in the boy's bedroom for his Samurai swords.
Clarence Gamble
200
The largest room in the house has walls of windows letting in natural light and fresh air when they are opened.
What is the attic.
200
What pattern is repeated throughout the house in all of the windows, on many lanterns, and furniture.
What is the lift or cloud lift pattern.
200
What design is displayed on the art glass of the front entry door.
What is a Japanese black pine tree.
200
This is the only place in the house where people can touch the wood.
The staircase railing from the first floor to the second floor.
300
He wanted to be an artist and is credited with drawing designs for area rugs, art glass, and the carved friezes in the living room.
Charles Greene
300
This room has beautiful bird's eye maple furniture inlaid with trailing rose vine and and the only bathroom on the first floor.
What is the downstairs guest bedroom.
300
This woodworking joint looks like a sideways "z" and looks like this:
What is a scarf joint.
300
This is one of the strongest woodjoints used throughout the house.
What is mortise and tenon.
300
Why is there a Privacy sign on a door in the upstairs hallway?
What is because two graduate students live year round in the two bedrooms behind the sign.
400
He was a fine architect whose engineering designs enabled his brother's drawings to come to life. He continued the architect practice when his brother moved to an artist's colony in Carmel, California.
Henry Greene
400
An annunciator system is located in this room which alerted staff when someone came to the front door or a family member needed assistance.
What is the kitchen.
400
These nature images are present in this wood frieze.
What are the bats and moon.
400
In which room or rooms is there a secret compartment and what might it have been used for?
The upstairs guest bedroom or Mr. and Mrs. Gamble's bedroom. It was primarily used to store valuables like jewels, money, or documents.
400
This product made by the Proctor and Gamble Company made the company and the Gamble Family very wealthy.
What is Ivory soap.
500
Name the woodworkers who built the Gamble house and much of the furniture.
The Hall Brothers. John and Peter Hall.
500
Which three rooms in the house have a sleeping porch?
What are the Boy's bedroom, Mr. and Mrs. Gamble's bedroom, and Aunt Julia's bedroom.
500
In the hallway between the dining room and the kitchen sits a large vase featuring this mythical creature.
What is a three-toed dragon.
500
These reddish, blackened bricks were used to build the wall around the backyard lily pond.
What are clinker bricks.
500
What two countries influenced the Greene brothers in their design of the Gamble House?
What are China and Japan.