Interior view of Ulysses S. Grant Cabin photograph   Save
Ohio History Connection - Property Files
Description: Detail of brickwork and a window in the interior of the cabin where Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. This photograph was taken February 7, 1936, at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, Columbus, Ohio. A second window whose panes form a diamond pattern is visible behind the cabin window. The second window is set in the wall of a cottage that enclosed the Grant cabin while it was on display at the fairgrounds. In 1888 the cabin had been removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant and placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. In August 1888, Henry T. Chittenden bought it in Cincinnati and had it moved to the state fairgrounds in Columbus for the Ohio Centennial Exposition of Sept. 4-Oct. 19, 1888, which commemorated the centennial of the Northwest Territory. After the exposition, the cabin remained on the state fairgrounds and in 1896 was moved into a structure purposely built to shelter and display it. It remained there until 1936. The cabin, in poor condition, was dismantled in February 1936. It has been restored with period furniture and opened to public tours. Grant Birthplace is located at 1551 State Rt 232, in Point Pleasant, in Clermont County, just off of U.S. Route 52 about five miles east of New Richmond. Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth president of the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05803
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Historic preservation; Historic sites Ohio; Point Pleasant (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Birthplaces
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)