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Ulysses S. Grant Birthplace, Point Pleasant, OH (4)

**U.S. Grant Birthplace and Grant Commemorative Sites Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 98001013, date listed 8/6/1998

 

NY 232 and US 52

 

Point Pleasant, OH (Clermont County)

 

The properties comprising U.S. Grant's Birthplace and Grant Commemorative Sites Historic District in Pt. Pleasant, Ohio, are significant under Criterion A for their role in commemorating the birth of Ulysses S. Grant, president, West Point graduate and Union general, and under Criterion Consideration F as commemorative monuments within the context of U. S. Grant iconography. The birthplace, memorial park and related commemorative sites represent places associated with Grant's birth in Clermont County and also as twentieth century tourist-related sites which in their own right have come to physically symbolize his Clermont County heritage.

 

The Grant Birthplace (ca. 1820, 1936)

The Grant Birthplace is a vernacular, one-story, three-bay, timber-frame building with a limestone foundation. The house has a wood-shingled, end-gable roof with no eaves. The balanced, east-facing facade consists of a center door framed by single 6 over 6 double hung windows. (1)

 

References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...

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