James A. Garfield – Price Undetermined, Lawnfield, Mentor, Ohio

James A. Garfield secured this abode in 1876 because his family was big. Reporters during his presidential campaign dubbed it the Lawnfield. It was where he successfully campaigned for the presidency in 1880, the first of the ‘front porch campaigns’. That same year, he expanded the house by eleven rooms. Garfield served as president from March 1881 until he was assassinated in September that same year. Four years following his death, his wife and her family gave the house an additional wing for a Memorial Library full of books. It started the practice of each president having one after retirement.