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Virtual Tour of the Blaine House - Blaine Study

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The Blaine Study

The study is decorated with wallpaper that replicates a pattern which Blaine copied from Abraham Lincoln's White House study. Furnishings include the handsome mahogany desk and chair Blaine used as a member of the United States Senate, many of the statesman's books contained in bookcases which fill one wall, and an inkwell surmounted by a seated statue of William Shakespeare. Above the fireplace hangs an engraving of Francis B. Carpenter's painting depicting Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. Encased in a glass frame attached to Blaine's Senatorial desk is a Blaine House treasure--a small card dated April 7, 1865, allowing "the bearer Mr. Blaine to pass from City Point to Richmond and return," signed A. Lincoln.