The Francklyns had a twenty-room "cottage" at the Elberon, New Jersey section of Long Branch directly on the ocean, designed by Charles F. McKim of McKim, Mead &amp; White. In 1881, when President James Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, the president was taken to Francklyn's cottage, along with his doctors, nurses, and family, to recover. The president died at the cottage shortly thereafter on September 19, 1881. The cottage was later sold in 1889, and eventually burned down on June 14, 1920.