Around the House
This is the pre-cursor to the view-master.
What is a stereoscope?
He died by drowning in Turlock Reservoir.
Who was Albert McHenry?
The eagle in the name of the McHenry ranch suffered from this affliction.
What is baldness?
This year, Modesto became a city.
What is 1870?
The mansion is an example of this type of architecture.
What is Victorian Italianate?
He was the architect and builder of the mansion.
Who was Jeremiah Robinson?
A similar device caught Ora Louise's nightgown on fire.
What is a curling iron?
He suffered a stroke and right-side paralysis.
Who was Robert McHenry?
Oramil and Louise were married here.
What is the Ross House?
This was the first name for Modesto's 9th street.
What is Front Street?
An example of this type of blanket is on Robert and Matilda's bed.
What is a crazy quilt?
The exterior siding of the mansion consists of this material.
What is redwood?
She lived in the mansion longer than anyone else.
Who was Myrtie McHenry?
He died at age 7 months.
Who was Russell McHenry?
Maltilda Hewitt's family settled near this town in CA.
Where is Farmington?
He was the mayor when the Gallo Family Foundation purchased the mansion.
Who was Lee Davies.
These feathers are featured in the library.
What are peacock feathers?
The only curved interior wall in the house is in this room.
What is the child's room?
The type of desk displayed in the library.
What is a Wooten Rotary Desk?
He died during the sinking of the Lusitania.
Who was Albert Bilicke, Louise's brother?
Oramil's will funded the construction of this.
What is the Stanislaus County library?
Modesto's first permanent brick schoolhouse was on this street.
What is 14th street?
One of the 3 rooms that have combination gas/electric light fixtures.
What is Oramil's bedroom, sitting room, or the guest bedroom?
The mansion opened for public tours during this year.
When was 1983?
This material was used in the fabric covering the furniture in the reception room.
What is horsehair?
She was widowed in 1906.
Who was Myrtie Conneau McHenry?
The stolen Alfred Rodriguez painting was recovered at this park.
What is Graceada park?
From 1946-1961 and again, 1966-1974, the city's baseball franchise was called this.
What are the Reds?
The Elmwood Sanitarium used this system to treat medical disorders.
What is the Battle Creek system or method?
Run plaster molding is placed here.
The intersection where the interior walls meet the ceiling.
The chickering square grand piano is made from this material.
What is rosewood?
The town that Robert McHenry was born in.
Where is Cambridge Vermont.
Prior to Modesto, this city was the county seat.
Where are Knights Ferry, LaGrange, Empire, or Adamsville?
This intersection was once the location of the Roger's Boy fountain.
What is 10th and I.
This species of tree line I Street beside the mansion.
What are Elms?
The roof material on the cupola showcases this type of shingle.
What is fish scale?
She is the goddess of agriculture.
Who is Ceres?
Oramil was ____ years of age when he married Louise Bilicke.
What is 25?
Robert McHenry owned butcher shops here during the gold rush.
Where are Jacksonville or Chinese Camp?
The story goes that the city was named after this fellow's modesty.
Who was Wm. C. Ralston
Elaine (Crabtree) Greydanus practiced her dance steps in front of this room's mirror.
What is the front parlor?
This safety system was effective stopping the spread of the 2011 fire.
What are fire sprinklers?
This was the manufacturer's name of the kitchen cast-iron stove.
What was the Coldwater Iron Stove Company?
Flowers were used in Victorian funerals to disguise this.
What is the smell of decay?
This river had to be crossed when Robert courted Matilda at her family home.
What is the Stanislaus.
Prior to 1914, Magnolia Street was named this.
What is Mapleline?
Early mansion apartment residents frequently received a box of these as a Christmas gift.
What are oranges?
This type of nail was used during the original mansion construction.
What are square nails?