{"nrhp_refnum":"76001374","name":"Grant, Ulysses S., Boyhood Home","other_names":["Grant Homestead"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"219 E. Grant Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Georgetown","county":"Brown County","state":"OH","lat":38.866137543000036,"lon":-83.90202142899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-10-08","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1985-02-04","areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, L-shaped brick house at 219 East Grant Avenue in Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, built in stages between 1823 and 1828 by Jesse R. Grant.","why_significant":"It was the boyhood home of Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War general-in-chief and 18th president, who lived there from 1824 to 1839 until he left for West Point. Its simple architecture reflects his humble background as the son of a tanner in rural southern Ohio. The nomination evaluated its significance at the state level.","narrative":"Ulysses S. Grant spent his boyhood years, 1824 to 1839, in this brick house in Georgetown, Ohio, before leaving for West Point. His father, Jesse R. Grant, a tanner, built it in stages. The original two-room, two-story section facing Water Street dates to 1823. A kitchen addition followed in 1824, along with a lean-to, and a larger two-story brick wing facing Grant Avenue was added in 1828, producing the present L-shaped plan on a dressed stone foundation. A flat-roofed front porch with stone panels and arched openings was added later. Inside, the woodwork, floors and fireplaces are original. Jesse Grant owned the property until 1847. Grant later became general-in-chief of the Union armies and the eighteenth president. The plain architecture reflects the family's modest, rural circumstances. Today the house is privately owned, maintained as a museum and shown by appointment, and it is marked as a historic site by the Ohio Historical Society.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Jesse Grant","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Privately owned and maintained as a museum, shown free of charge by appointment; interior in excellent condition with original woodwork, floors, walls and fireplaces.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:10.351255-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001374.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001374/534c20dea5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001374/534c20dea5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grant_Boyhood_Home_from_southwest.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grant_Boyhood_Home_from_southwest.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986875","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Boyhood_Home","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5596119"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/brown-county/grant-ulysses-s-boyhood-home-76001374/"}