The Maine State House is built at State and Capitol Streets in Augusta.

After Captain Hall’s death, his sons convey the house to their mother Frances Ann Hall.

Greenwood Child’s son J. Rufus Child sells the house to James G. Blaine for $5,000. Blaine gives the house to his wife Harriet Stanwood Blaine, who was born in Augusta, as a birthday present.

General William T. Sherman stays at the Blaine House for a night in the summer of 1867.

James G, Blaine adds an Italianate bay window and cupola to the main house and a two-story addition to the ell, which contains a first floor study and billiard room and a second-floor bedroom suite. This addition features a cupola that echoes the one on the main house. The carriage house is enlarged by a third in size.

After James G. Blaine’s death on January 27, 1893, his wife Harriet Stanwood Blaine continues to own the house.

After James G. Blaine's death, his widow rented the Blaine House to John F. and Laura L. Hill from 1897 to 1902. Hill was elected governor in 1900, and the Hills used the house as their official residence until they moved to their new home on State Street in January 1903, now referred to as the Governor Hill Mansion. President Theodore Roosevelt is an overnight guest of Governor Hill and his wife at the Blaine House in August,1902.

The Blaine heirs rent the Blaine House for the 1905 legislative season to five young legislators, including Frederick Hale, a future U.S. Senator, Oakley Curtis, a future governor, and Edward Merrill, a future Maine Supreme Court justice.

Walker Blaine Beale receives the Blaine House as a gift for his 21st birthday on March 22, 1917. Beale telephones Governor Carl E. Milliken from his Harvard dormitory to offer the house as the headquarters for the Committee of Public Safety for the duration of World War I.

Lt. Walker Blaine Beale dies fighting on September 18, 1918 in the St. Michiel Drive in France. His father Truxtun Beale inherits the Blaine House and gives it in October 1918 to his former wife Harriet Blaine Beale, who becomes the last member of the family to own the house.

Governor Carl E. Milliken, First Lady Emma C, Milliken, and their six children move into the Blaine House in January,1920, just in time for Mrs. Milliken to give birth to their seventh child.

Governor and Mrs. Sumner Sewall hold a luncheon at the Blaine House for First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on May 20, 1941.

Senator John F. Kennedy holds a press conference at the Blaine House in November, 1959.

First Lady Polly Curtis oversees the publication of “The Blaine House, Home of Maine Governors” by H. Draper Hunt. An updated second edition of the book is published in 1994 at the request of First Lady Senator Olympia Snowe.

The Grounds Committee of the Blaine House Restoration Fund oversees the construction of Carl Rust Parker’s 1920 design for the Blaine House entrance on State Street.

The Blaine House is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building to the Capitol Complex National Register Historic District.

Arcadia Publishing publishes “The Blaine House” by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. as part of their Landmark Series featuring historic buildings across America.

Fedco Seeds and renowned orchardist, John Bunker, donate nine apple tree seedlings representing historic varietals from nine counties of Maine to establish a Centennial Orchard. This gift commemorates 100 years of the Blaine House becoming the Governor’s residence and the Maine Peoples’ House. By 2022, there will be 16 trees representing all 16 counties of Maine. With the addition of the apple trees, two beehives were constructed to aid in the pollination of the fruit trees, the substantial herb garden and the highly productive Chef’s vegetable gardens.