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Description
This mansion on Locust Avenue in Skowhegan, now the site of the Redington-Fairview Hospital, was built about 1882 for Manley T. Pooler and his wife, Mary Ella Coburn, a niece of former Maine Governor Abner Coburn. Clyde Smith bought it in 1927 and Margaret Chase Smith moved in when she married Clyde in 1930. She sold the house in 1945.
About This Item
- Title: Margaret Chase Smith home, Skowhegan, 1940
- Creator: G. Herbert Whitney
- Creation Date: 1940-07-17
- Subject Date: 1940-07-17
- Location: Skowhegan, Somerset County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12 cm x 17 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 553, No. 2
- Collection: George Herbert Whitney interesting interviews : photographs
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Smith, Margaret Chase, (1897-1995)--Homes and haunts--Maine--Skowhegan
- Legislators--United States
- Women legislators--United States
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