U S Grant Home

Anheuser-Busch Art Museum Budweiser Clydesdales Cathedral St Louis Delmar Loop Forest Park Frank Lloyd Wright Grant's Farm U S Grant Home

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site

 

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site

 

White Haven

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site is a 9.65-acre (39,100 m2) United States National Historic Site located 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Downtown St. Louis, Missouri within the municipality of Grantwood Village.

 

Grant monogram

 

as President

 

as Soldier

The site, also known as White Haven, commemorates the life, military career, and Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.

 

White Haven

 

 

 

 

Early Owners of the Farm

Five historic structures are preserved at the site including the childhood home of Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant; the couple lived in the home from 1854 to 1859.

 

Laundry and Summer Kitchen

 

Laundry

 

Summer kitchen

Ironically, White Haven was a plantation worked by slaves at the time Grant was married to his wife in 1848 and remained so until the end of the American Civil War.

Text from Wikipedia

 

The log house Grant built for he and Julia
but never had a chance to live in
(now in Grant's Farm, a Budweiser amusement area)

More Photos from Grant's Farm


The Residence

 

 

the lower level at the fireplace is the winter kitchen

 

 

 

back of the Laundry and the Summer kitchen


Interior

 

 

 

 

 

office

 

door stop

 

Julia's dress

 

Grant discussing slavery with his slave holding father-in-law


 

Why Green ?

 

Vertical Log Construction

 

for slaves only ?

 

 

pump over the cistern


Out Buildings

 

 

feed storage and chicken house

 

storage

 

nests for egg laying chickens

 

 

ice house

 

 

ice storage area

 

barn

 

tack

 

carriage

 

barn

 

 

a working farm

 

 

 


Anheuser-Busch Art Museum Budweiser Clydesdales Cathedral St Louis Delmar Loop Forest Park Frank Lloyd Wright Grant's Farm U S Grant Home

Bollinger Mill Branson Covered Bridges G W Carver Independence Kansas City Mark Twain Pershing Home Saint Louis

World Heritage Mosaics Roman World Africa Antarctica Asia Atlantic Islands Australia Caribbean Central America Europe Indian Ocean Middle East North America Pacific Islands South America The Traveler Recent Adventures Adventure Travel

 

People and Places