{"nrhp_refnum":"98001013","name":"U.S. Grant Birthplace and Grant Commemorative Sites Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NY 232 and US 52","address_restricted":false,"city":"Point Pleasant","county":"Clermont County","state":"OH","lat":38.89436730700004,"lon":-84.23272236299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-08-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Conservation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-acre historic district in Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, centered on the birthplace of Ulysses S. Grant. It includes the Grant Birthplace house, Grant Memorial Park, a caretaker's house and garage, bridge pylons and beacons, and 1930s WPA landscape features.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion A for commemorating the birth of Ulysses S. Grant and as a set of twentieth-century commemorative and tourist sites. The State of Ohio acquired the park in 1925, making it an early public preservation effort, and WPA work in the 1930s added walls, walks and a parking lot. The form states the birthplace is not eligible as a birthplace under the criteria consideration because other Grant properties are more closely tied to his career.","narrative":"Point Pleasant, a small hamlet on the Ohio River east of Cincinnati, is the birthplace of Ulysses S. Grant, and this four-acre district gathers the places that commemorate that fact. At its core is the Grant Birthplace, a one-story timber-frame house with a limestone foundation, furnished as it might have looked at his birth. Nearby are a brick caretaker's house from about 1820 with 1936 additions by the Columbus firm Goller, Harsh & Davies, a 1936-37 garage, and Grant Memorial Park. Stone pylons, bronze beacons and plaques from the 1920s bridge survive, though the bridge span itself was replaced in 1984. Limestone retaining walls, flagstone walks, gutters and a parking lot were built with Works Progress Administration labor around 1937. The State of Ohio acquired the park in 1925, an early public preservation effort. The district was listed for its role in commemorating Grant and in the growth of tourism tied to his Clermont County origins, with a period of significance from about 1864 to 1948.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1864-1948","architect_builder":"Goller, Harsh & Davies, Columbus, OH","architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The Birthplace is furnished and interpreted as a museum; the park and sites remain largely as they were in the late 1930s. The 1927 truss bridge was replaced by a concrete span in 1984, which is non-contributing, while the original pylons, beacons and plaques remain.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.680468-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/98001013.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001013/52bcdf5694-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001013/52bcdf5694-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.5","author":"Greg5030 at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GrantBirthplace.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg5030 at English Wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GrantBirthplace.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987152","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Birthplace","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5596107"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/clermont-county/u-s-grant-birthplace-and-grant-commemorative-sites-historic-district-98001013/"}