Special Assignments for Tour Activity Sheet

Interviewing a Room

You can answer these questions for any room at the Centre Furnace Mansion or for any room in your own house.

1. What kind of room am I?

2. Who used me? Wife, husband, boys, girls?

3. For what activities was I used?

4. From looking at me would you guess that the people who lived here probably:

-   lived in the 1700s, 1800s, or 1900s?

-   were rich, poor, or middle class?

-   made what they used or bought what they needed?

5. Name three things you find in me and tell what they show about the family?

Interviewing an Object

You can answer these questions for any object at the Centre Furnace Mansion or for anything in your own house.

1. Of what am I made?

2. For what am I used?

3. Where am I used?

4. Who used me?

5. Any special marks on me?

6. What am I?