This began as a guest room and became the girls' room when they were old enough to leave the nursery. The mantle glass is not original to the house, but serves the same purpose as the one in the parlor . The dressing glass , a Museum acquisition, is a more unusual piece. The idea of a glass on stand with drawers is specific and specialized, a rarity in this period. The 18th and early 19th centuries were not fond of things that did just one job.
Today dressing tables and dressers, all with obligatory mirrors are the norm.
This piece is Anglo-Indian. The Myers' room was on the north side of the house because it would have been cooler in the summer. The gentleman's powder glass allows the user to see the back of his head and make sure that the powder was even on his hair or wig. A lady who could afford to powder would never do her own hair. This room may have begun as a night nursery, became a bedroom, and then a sitting room.