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The original plans
The original plans
The Senator drew her original plans for her home on her congressional letterhead and an envelope holding her American Airlines ticket.
The Layout
The Layout
Here is the original "Color Schedule" created by Maine architect Alonzo Harriman. Many of the colors in the home remain intact. The only one that is currently different is the kitchen. This is also a wonderful representation of the layout Margaret Chase Smith designed. Each room is numbered and labeled below:
Combination Living Room and Dining Room (Largest Room)
Margaret's Bedroom and Hallway
Guest Bedroom known as "The Eisenhower Room"
Front Entrance
Guest Bedroom and Hallway
Kitchen (Currently Blue)
Bedroom Bath
Guest Bathroom
The front Entrance
The front Entrance
The importance of family to Margaret Chase Smith becomes readily apparent upon entering the front hall of her home. Seven photographs displayed in the first room of the house depict her mother and father, Carrie and George Chase.
Front Entry.mp4
The Chase Family
The Chase Family
One of the pictures, which also appears in two other rooms, shows her entire immediate family: her parents (George and Carrie), two sisters (Laura and Evelyn), brother (Wilbur), their spouses, her five nieces and nephews, and her pet dog, Minnix.
It was taken on November 1, 1942, two years after Margaret's husband, Clyde, died.
The Living Room
The Dining Area
The Large room
The Large room
Margaret Chase Smith sketched the design with one large room in mind. Two of its distinctive features are a large combination living and dining room and the extensive use of picture windows.
Living Room and Dinning Room.mp4
Blanche Bernier, William C. Lewis Jr., Margaret Chase Smith, and May Craig
Skowhegan, Maine
1949
Senator Smith invited Portland Press Herald Washington Correspondent May Craig (far right) into her home. They are seated with her Executive Assistant (Lewis) and Secretary (Bernier).
A spectacular view
A spectacular view
From the dining room table, Senator Smith could look out the window onto her hometown. Next to the church steeple had once stood the high school she had attended. Spanning the river were the Margaret Chase Smith bridges. Her first job had been in a store in the downtown business district. From this vantage point, she could almost see all the way to her birthplace on North Avenue.
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