{"nrhp_refnum":"100006247","name":"Grant Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"CR 101 N of Rte. 9","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mount McGregor","county":"Saratoga County","state":"NY","lat":null,"lon":null,"geom_source":null},"listed_date":null,"is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2021-01-13","areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":[],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wooden cottage on Mount McGregor, reached from County Road 101 north of Route 9 in Saratoga County, New York. Duncan McGregor built it in 1872, and the State of New York now owns it.","why_significant":"It is where General Ulysses S. Grant spent his last five weeks and died on July 23, 1885, while finishing his memoirs. The nomination argues it has special historic value because the furnishings and personal artifacts present at his death remain in the house, kept that way through a deliberate act of preservation.","narrative":"Grant Cottage is a two-story wooden house on Mount McGregor in Saratoga County, New York. Duncan McGregor built it in 1872. It has a rectangular plan, a wood frame, clapboard siding and a gabled roof. Three interior brick chimneys with corbeled caps and one end chimney rise above it. A one-story porch wraps the north and west sides, and a wooden deck runs along the east front. In June 1885 the physicians of ailing General Ulysses S. Grant suggested mountain air might help him. Grant was in financial difficulty and needed to finish his memoirs so his widow would not be left penniless. Joseph W. Drexel, the cottage's new owner, offered it to him, and Grant spent his last five weeks there, dying on July 23, 1885. Drexel willed that the cottage be kept exactly as it was at that moment. The furnishings and personal artifacts remain in place, and the State of New York now owns the property, which operates as a museum.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Duncan McGregor (erected the cottage in 1872)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition, unaltered and on its original site. It is occupied and used as a museum, and not all portions are open to the public. The interior and furniture remain nearly as they were the day Grant died.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.692904-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/71000557.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321584","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/saratoga-county/grant-cottage-100006247/"}