Illinois Adventure #1701 Ulysses S. Grant Home State Historic Site
The Italianate structure known as the U. S. Grant Home was built in 1859-60 as a residence by Alexander J. Jackson of Galena.
The Grant Home site includes several small mid-19th century homes comprising the three-block Grant Home Historic Neighborhood. Grant State Park, a tree-shaded area south of the Grant Home has picnic tables for public use. Also in the park is the Long House, a log building constructed ca. 1851 and moved to the site from Elizabeth, Illinois in 1976, representing a typical settler's home of mid-nineteenth-century Jo Daviess County.
Visitors are provided with an interpreter-conducted tour of the Grant Home. Interpreters are dressed in historic costumes from April through October. The tour emphasizes Grant as the victorious war leader, the 1868 candidate for president, and the eighteenth President of the United States. The adjacent building contains exhibits on Grant's life and history of the Grant Home. The first floor of the Home is accessible to persons with disabilities, as are the exhibit room and restrooms in the building next door. The Home's second floor is not accessible.
Ulysses S. Grant's Home - Galena, IL
This is a video of a tour of Ulysses S. Grant's Home in Galena, IL. The home is a State Historic Park run by the state of Illinois. Grant lived in Galena for a short time before the Civil War and for three years after the war.
Tours of the home are free but a $5 donation is requested. Galena is a small historic town in NW Illinois.
Ulysses S. Grant Home in Galena, IL
The President's home was a gift from the city of Galena. it is now a state historical site.
Ulysses S. Grant Home On High St. In Galena, Illinois
This brick house is where the Grant's were living when the Civil War broke out. The following is from the Galena visitor's website...
Grant in Galena
Grant and his family arrived in Galena in the spring of 1860 and rented a small Federal style brick house on High Street. He had ended a fifteen year military career six years earlier, but had enjoyed little business success as a civilian. He hoped to reverse his economic misfortune by moving to northwestern Illinois, where he would work in the Galena store owned by his father and managed by his younger brothers, Simpson and Orvil. Grant was a clerk in name only; he spent considerable time away from the store, travelling through the Northwest considerably during the winter of 1860-61. They had customers in all the little towns in south-west Wisconsin, south-east Minnesota, and northeast. Iowa. Until he left Galena in the spring of 1861 to serve in the Civil War, Grant and his wife, Julia, rented (this) modest brick home on the west side of the river for approximately $100.00 a year.
August 2007
Ulysses S. Grant Home State Historic Site
Ulysses S. Grant Home State Historic Site in Galena, Illinois.
Grant's Tomb:
Galena Illinois: Ulysses Grants Home + Downtown
Ulysses S Grant boyhood home
Just some history four blocks from my home.
U.S. Grant Home on Bouthillier St. In Galena, Illinois
This is Ulysses S. Grant's second home in Galena, Illinois. The following is from the city website...
On August 18, 1865, Galena celebrated the return of its Civil War hero General Ulysses S. Grant. Following a jubilant procession with much flag waving and speeches, a group of Galena citizens presented the General with a handsome furnished house on Bouthillier Street. The house is managed by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency as the U.S. Grant Home State Historic Site.
The brick house, which was designed by William Dennison, had been constructed in 1860 for former City Clerk Alexander J. Jackson. Thomas B. Hughlett, on behalf of only a small group of local Republicans, purchased the house for $2,500 in June 1865 and presented it to Grant two months later. The house is typical of the Italianate style, which is characterized by well defined rectilinear shapes, projecting eaves supported by brackets, low pitched roof, and balustraded balconies over covered porches.
Following his election as president in 1868 he visited only occasionally. In 1873 Grant commented that although it is probable I will never live much time among you, but in the future be only a visitor as I am at present, . . . I hope to retain my residence here . . . I expect to cast my vote here always. The house was maintained by caretakers in anticipation of the President's visits, the local newspaper reporting that it was in excellent order and ready for occupation at any time, adding that visitors are always admitted.
Grant made his final visits to his Galena home in 1880. At that time he found that several changes had been made - a new sidewalk laid in front of the premises, the outbuildings repaired, the trees handsomely trimmed, a new and commodious wash house built and other improvements made.
Fascinating discovery at Ulysses S Grant home in Galena, IL
Q98.5's Mark Charvat traveled to Galena on August 17, 2014 and made a shocking discovery at the home of our 18th President Ulysses S Grant.
President Ulysses S. Grant and Historic Galena, Illinois
The town of Galena in northwestern Illinois was named for the mineral galena, a source for lead and silver, making it the site of the country's first major mineral rush back in the 1820s.
Ulysses S. Grant moved to Galena in 1860 to work in a tannery. When the Civil War broke out, Grant raised a regiment of volunteers. Grant was promoted to the rank of general in 1861, and was given command of all Union Armies in 1864.
Grant returned to Galena after the war. He and his wife moved into a brick house, now the Ulysses S. Grant Home State Historic Site. He was elected president in 1868 and left Galena for good when he moved to Washington DC.
The Photos (in order)
M96A0114 - Galena train depot
R15A0195 - Dating back to 1826, Dowling House is the oldest building in Galena
R15A0196 - Downtown Galena, now a popular tourist destination
R15A0199 - A horse peers out of a downtown window
R15A0216 - Home of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia when Grant ran for president, now an Illinois state historic site
R15A0223 - Statue of Julia Dent Grant on the grounds of their home
R15A0209 - DeSoto House was founded as Galena's premiere hotel; Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas spoke from its balcony on separate occasions, and it was home to Grant's presidential campaign headquarters
R15A0230 - Sculptures at the West Street Sculpture Park
President Ulysses S Grant Illinois Home
Join the Albans as they visit 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S Grant's home in historic Galena, IL. Tour the home, see the General Store, see one of only 5 statues of a First Lady and see what life was like in the 1860's.
Ulysses S Grant Boyhood Home
The boyhood home of our 18th President is in Georgetown Ohio, a short drive from Cincinnati.
Paula Sands Live - Grant Home in Galena, Illinois
Join Bryan Witt from KWQC TV 6's Paula Sands Live crew, as he tours the Grant Home in Galena, Illinois.
Grant's Home, Galena Illinois
Visitor video, arriving at Grant's Home in Galena, Illinois.
Galena & U.S. Grant Museum
Galena & U.S. Grant Museum in Galena, Illinois.
Illinois Adventure #1506 Grant's Home
Special events held at the site during the year include a Night Walk, a popular summer living history program; Harvest Time, a festival where visitors can participate in activities from 19th century farm life in the fall; Touring Grant's St. Louis, a ranger-guided bus tour of Grant-related sites in October and Holidays at White Haven, a day of holiday traditions and children's crafts from the 19th century held in December. Hardscrabble, the Grants' first home is located across the road from White Haven on the Anheuser-Busch-owned Grant's Farm property. Grant built Hardscrabble on 80 acres of the White Haven plantation given to the couple as a wedding gift after he resigned from the military to spend more time with his wife and their children. The White Haven staff conducts an interpretive program on special days each year when Hardscrabble is open to the public. The Grant's Farm animal preserve is open free-of-charge from April through November.
The DeSoto House Hotel
The DeSoto House Hotel in Galena is the oldest operating hotel in Illinois. Famous people throughout history, such as President U.S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln, stayed in this hotel.
Ulysses S Grant's House
Ulysses grant's house. Take a tour of the house and the area in Galena Illinois
White Haven - Home of Ulysses S Grant - Missouri
Day 56 7-25-16 This is the home of Ulysses S. Grant located in Missouri.
Statue at U.S. Grant's House in Galena, Illinois
My daughter was so afraid of this statue at U.S. Grant's house? She did not want to go by this lady.