Grant, Ulysses S., Boyhood Home
Historic house in Ohio, United States in Georgetown, Ohio. Added to the National Register in 1976, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
The Grant Boyhood Home is a historic house museum at 219 East Grant Avenue in Georgetown, Ohio. Built in 1823, it was where United States President and American Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant (1822–85) lived from 1823 until 1839, when he left for the United States Military Academy at West Point. In 1976, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nine years later, it was designated a National Historic Landmark. It is now owned by the Ohio History Connection and operated as part of a suite of Grant-related museum properties in Georgetown.
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The record
| Property type | Building |
| Address | 219 E. Grant Ave., Georgetown, OH |
| County | Brown County |
| Listed | Oct 8, 1976 |
| Reference number | 76001374 |
| Type of place | house |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark |
| Contributing resources | 1 buildings |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | 219 E. Grant Ave., Georgetown, OH |
| Coordinates | 38.86614, -83.90202 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | William Howard Taft National Historic Site · 37 mi · on Park Atlas |
| Federal campgrounds nearby | Paint Creek Dam Site 39 mi |
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Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 76001374. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.