Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — TOM REED'S HOME. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TOM REED'S HOME.

A Plain, Unpretentious Structure in Portland, Me. Thomas Brackett Reed, ex-Speaker of the National House of Representatives, and Presidential aspirant, was born in Portland, Me., in 1840 and has lived there nearly all his life. His residence is a big, red brick structure, a double house, and Mr. Reed owns and lives in the corner half of it It stands in the fashionable part of residential Portland, and there Is a fine view of the water front and suburbs from its upper windows. In old-fashioned Portland the old fashion of having door plates Is still in vogue, and on Mr. Reed's big front door is a very small and modest silver plate inscribed, “T. B. Reed.” Though n very plain house in its exterior, within it is delightful. One has not been a moment past the front door before he notices that the library Is the soul of this house. The parlor in front is pretty and artistic; the dining-room in the rear is small and rather severe,

after the New England style. The library between them is the largest room in the house and the one most used. It is full of books, pictures, curio and easy chairs and has a flood of light streaming in it through broad windows.

RESIDENCE OF T. B. REED.