The summer bedroom, used by James Garfield and his wife during the hotter months of the year, is located to the left of the front hall. Its furnishings reveal something of the man who lived here. The secretary desk used by Mr. Garfield in Hiram, Ohio, represents his time as president of the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute. A needlepoint portrait of the General in his Civil War uniform reminds us that he had had the military experience so essential to U.S. Presidential candidates in those years after the war.