Illinois Adventure
The Italianate structure known as the U. S. Grant Home was built in 1859-60 as a residence by Alexander J. Jackson of Galena.
The Grant Home site includes several small mid-19th century homes comprising the three-block "Grant Home Historic Neighborhood." "Grant State Park," a tree-shaded area south of the Grant Home has picnic tables for public use. Also in the park is the Long House, a log building constructed ca. 1851 and moved to the site from Elizabeth, Illinois in 1976, representing a typical settler's home of mid-nineteenth-century Jo Daviess County.
Visitors are provided with an interpreter-conducted tour of the Grant Home. Interpreters are dressed in historic costumes from April through October. The tour emphasizes Grant as the victorious war leader, the 1868 candidate for president, and the eighteenth President of the United States. The adjacent building contains exhibits on Grant's life and history of the Grant Home. The first floor of the Home is accessible to persons with disabilities, as are the exhibit room and restrooms in the building next door. The Home's second floor is not accessible.
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My memory of a tour I took of Grant’s house was how surprised I felt of the tight and rather cramped spaces inside with the staircase and rooms. I wondered if that was typical of homes made back then.
beautiful home..
Very intriguing. 👍🏿
Wow I love it. The house and history. The home looks similar to mine.
In st Clair county in Illinois captain grant was in charge of a camp there plus outside of St. Louis is grants farm
this was very fun
@WTVP
8 жыл бұрын
+Brian F. Thanks!
4:04 most sites say he died of throat - not lung! - cancer. (Technically, NIH says carcinoma of the right tonsillar pillar)
Nice but nobody warned about smoking until 1964.
@catsnmi270
2 жыл бұрын
Precisely. In my parents' day smoking cigarettes and cigars was considered to bestow beneficial properties upon the smoker. My father started smoking at age 14 and only stopped at age 83. He used to smoke an average of 60 cigarettes a day and he was a doctor!! He died at age 93 - no, not of lung cancer!
Don't go there on a Monday. We did and it was closed.
I went to galena and toured this, the bath part was just disgusting
Galena holds on to Grant very tightly even though his time there was very short. He may have owned the house for 40 years. But he lived there personally for a few months total. After the civil war, he was still serving in some capacity for the army/ government until he was elected president. After his presidency, he toured the world for several years. After that he lived and died in New York. After grant's death, his wife Julia lived in Washington DC until she died. So Galena was never seen as "home" to the grant's. In reality, the Grant's lived in Galena for a total of maybe a couple of years. So while this house is a great historical monument, it doesn't hold the same level of importance to me as other "homes" of historically important people. To me it's no more interesting than those places that claim, "George Washington spent the night here once".
@marksauck8481
3 жыл бұрын
Grant worked in his father’s tannery in Galena before the civil war.
Cant see real good because of the words on the screen
God bless the Confederacy and the South 😁.
I like Grant as a tenacious General, but he was a crummy President...
@ericaguidino3376
5 жыл бұрын
He was a boozer also.
@maclac48
4 жыл бұрын
21stCenturyHandyman Good point. 👍🏿
@GH-oi2jf
4 жыл бұрын
Wolf Pak - He is currently ranked approximately in the middle of the pack. His earlier, poor rating, was based on disinformation from his enemies.
@seththomas9105
3 жыл бұрын
Grants star as a president has risen considerably in the last 30 years as historians have re-examined his presidency and have dismissed much of the outright lies that were spoken about him by his detractors.
Is it true that he was nothin but an old drunk?
@GH-oi2jf
4 жыл бұрын
maclac48 - No.
@uwantsun
Жыл бұрын
no.
He was a terrible speller,worse than me.
*FUN FACT* .... Grant owned 1 slave....Robert E. Lee owned NONE.
@uwantsun
Жыл бұрын
He was given the slave as a wedding gift by his father in law and immediately set him free, rather than sell him for 1000 dollars.
@KillaCommieFerMommie
Жыл бұрын
@@uwantsun Complete and utter BS
@uwantsun
Жыл бұрын
@@KillaCommieFerMommie why do you hate him so much? Because you are not half the man he was?