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The third floor originally had two bedrooms connected by the bathroom and dressing room. The front room served as Charles Hammond Gibson Sr.'s bedroom until his death in 1916. Charles Jr. redecorated the room and used it as his private study where he sat at the desk between the windows and wrote his books and poetry.

The bathroom and dressing room receive light from the ventilation shaft which rises from the second-floor ceiling to the roof. Each room and the stair hall have hinged windows opening onto the shaft, permitting a good deal of control over ventilation in the summer and the convection of warm air from the furnace in winter.

This view of the bathroom shows the windows opening into the air/light shaft. The door at the far end leads to the dressing room.

The plumbing fixtures in the bathroom (toilet, tub and sink) date from 1902. This floor of the house had cold running water in 1859; hot water would have been brought up by the servants. More recently, plumbing has been extended and there is now a full bathroom on each floor above this one. This was not always the case. Initially, the water pressure in the city was not sufficient to bring water higher than the third floor.