The Grant Boyhood Home is a historic house museum at 219 East Grant Avenue in Georgetown, Ohio. Built in 1823, it was where United States President and American Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85) lived from 1823 until 1839,[3] when he left for the United States Military Academy at West Point. In 1976, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1] Nine years later, it was Read More
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Donald Trump Boyhood Home, Queens, New York
Donald Trump – Wikipedia Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in Queens, a borough of New York City, and received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School. Read More
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Virginia
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, author of the Declaration of Independence. He served as the third President of the United States (1801–1809). In 1768, Jefferson began constructing his primary residence Monticello (Italian for “Little Mountain”) on a hilltop overlooking his 5,000-acre plantation near Charlottesville, Read More
Roosevelt Campobello Cottage, Campobello Island, Canada
Roosevelt Campobello Cottage The summer retreat of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and their family. It is located on the southern tip of Campobello Island in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, and is connected to the mainland by the Roosevelt Memorial Bridge, at Lubec, Maine in the United States. Here in August 1921, 39-year-old Read More
Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois
Lincoln Home National Historic Site preserves the Springfield, Illinois home and a historic district where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1844 to 1861, before becoming the 16th President of the United States. The home was purchased by Lincoln and his wife in 1844 and was the only home that Lincoln ever owned. Their children, four sons, Read More
John F. Kennedy’s Birthplace, Brookline, Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy’s birthplace, a National Historic Site at 83 Beals St. in Brookline, Mass. In 1914, soon after they were married, Joseph and Rose Kennedy moved into the nine-room Colonial house. Those who visit the house can still see the bassinet where John slept as a baby, along with the piano he played as Read More
The President Gerald R. Ford Jr. Boyhood Home
The President Gerald R. Ford Jr. Boyhood Home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. Prior to his accession to the presidency he served as the Read More