Last Updated on February 5, 2024, 1:23 PM | Published: February 5, 2024
The Mansion OKC sends this information as posted below:
OKLAHOMA CITY – An exhibit of handmade quilts that reflect African-American history and culture will be featured during the Black History Month open house at The Mansion, 3101 NE 50.
The house will be open from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, and Sunday, Feb. 25, said Doris Youngblood, who owns the three-story home built by Oklahoma City’s first Black physician, Dr. Wyatt H. Slaughter.
Youngblood and her husband, Marq, acquired in 2013 the red stone showpiece built in 1937 by Slaughter and his wife, Edna Randolph Slaughter. The public is invited to tour the 4,754 square-foot home, learn more about Oklahoma’s African-American pioneers and view colorful quilts on loan from local quilters including members of the Scissor Tales Quilters Guild.
Light refreshments will be served. Reservations are not required.
More than 20 quilters will exhibit works of art ranging from vintage heirloom treasures to innovative African-styled quilts, said Scissor Tales Quilters Guild President Beverly Kirk. The culturally-inclusive guild meets monthly at the Oklahoma County OSU Extension Center, 2500 NE 63 rd St.
The Slaughter and Randolph families “were very generous, very civic-minded,” Doris Youngblood said. “Dr. Slaughter was a prominent person, but still concerned about his neighbors. He helped many of them start businesses.”
The Youngbloods spent two years renovating the house, which is now a lodging and events center. It’s been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2018.
The open house is in partnership with Oklahoma Black Living Legacy, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving Oklahoma’s African-American history through its sites, artifacts and legacies. Hanging in various rooms of the house are a pictorial history of the Slaughter family.
Slaughter, who came to Oklahoma in 1903, “delivered hundreds of babies including Ralph Ellison,” Youngblood said. He died in 1952, and members of his family lived in the 10-room house until the 1970s.
For more information, call 405-845-9456.
Photo caption:
Estraletta Green, standing, and Evelyn Spriggs admire a bargello quilt made by Elaine Lewis. (Photo provided by Scissor Tales Quilters Guild.)
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