What comfort Mr. Fairchild must have taken in entertaining many notable personages during the years that he was in congress: six terms beginning in 1905. During this period he was a participant in the Panama Canal proceedings and became the ranking member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. We know that Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft were guests of Mr. Fairchild and stayed for varying lengths of time in the mansion.

We will go to the upper floors by means of the elevator added in the mid-1960's. In gaining admission to the elevator, we necessarily pass through the Downstairs Guest Bedroom (now the second billiard room). Here we find the seventh fireplace, quartered oak paneling, complimenting woods of cherry and black walnut. Off of this bedroom is a bathroom, containing one of the distinctive, imported porcelain decorated washbasins.

Most of the windows, except those fronting Main Street in the library, have full wooden shutters for each upper and lower portions. These recess into the framing of each window.

Guest Bed Room