Restored to the appearance of the Bush residency, significant interior features include the original “knotty pine” paneling in the living room, den, and master bedroom original cabinets and hardware a phone niche an original light fixture and the wallpaper from the Bush occupancy. A narrow hallway separates the three bedrooms and one bath from the public spaces. The compact, efficient layout includes a living room, den, and eat-in kitchen at the front of the house. The complex low-pitched hipped roof of red shingles contrasts with the olive green clapboards and the red brick detailing at the top of the chimney. An original brick chimney and large projecting bay window, added when the attached garage became a den, dominate the front elevation. By 1950, 215 oil companies had offices in Midland and a local developer called it the “headquarters of the independent oil man in Texas.” The simple one-story frame house, built in 1939, was one of the first in its subdivision. Bush and his wife Barbara bought this house on November 7, 1951, Midland was already changing from a small country town into the economic center of the great Permian oil basin that spans west Texas and eastern New Mexico. The Bush administration supported and obtained the enactment of large tax cuts and worked with Congress to secure substantial education reforms in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, two of its most notable domestic initiatives. Bush took dramatic steps to protect Americans at home and abroad. Declaring “the war on terrorism,” President George W. The tragic bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the hijacking of Flight 93 on Septemhave dominated the administration of his son. The first President Bush led the nation during the tumultuous years of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the reunification of divided Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Gulf War that drove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. The family lived in the house for four years. Bush, his first child, was five at the time. Bush bought this house in 1951, a year after he moved his family to the booming west Texas town of Midland to establish himself in the oil business. This typical pre-World War II suburban house shares with the Adams National Historical Site the distinction of being the home of two presidents: George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, and George Walker Bush, the 43rd president. The Bush Family Home State Historic Site pays tribute to the two presidents who lived here, one on the verge of his political career and the other not yet a teenager. Courtesy Bush Family Home State Historic Site
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