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)
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
