The second floor is designed around the library, entered through a glass door, matching other surrounding doors for books around the room. These built-in floor-to-ceiling Sheraton-style bookcases are glazed in a classical fret (an ornamental network) pattern. Thirteen panes of glass are purely coincidental with the 13 original colonies.
A door to the connecting bedroom includes a broken-apex pediment (triangular space that forms the gable of a roof) has dentil molding and contains a plinth—a base of a column or a pedestal for the display of a vase or bust. The swelled frieze under the cornice (frieze is a sculptured or richly ornamented band on a building or piece of furniture) is a tied garland of oak leaves, signifying unity. The finials (crowning ornament) of the hinges of the mahogany door are acorns.
The ceiling motif of a Grecian female figure seems to be performing a burnt offering. An ewer, or vase-shaped pitcher, stands on the ground behind her. The circular fan medallion is decorated with chains of wheat husks and surrounded by bead molding and ogee molding—a molding with an s-shaped profile. These are enclosed in wreaths of husks, which also encircle paterae—small dishes with a rosette design—used by the Romans for offerings.