Grant Cottage

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Grant Cottage State Historic Site is an Adirondack mountain cottage on the slope of Mount McGregor in the town of Moreau, New York. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, died of throat cancer at the cottage on July 23, 1885.”
Wikipedia article Grant Cottage State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Saratoga County · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. CR 101 N of Rte. 9, Mount McGregor, 12831
Category. building
Town. Moreau town
National Register reference number. 71000557 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1900 to 1989

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Grant Cottage, surveyed 1989

Topographic sheet covering Grant Cottage, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Grant Cottage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 430 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	79
Debris and open burning	33
Arson/incendiarism	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Recreation and ceremony	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Natural	4
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
25 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
15 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
14 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA
13 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Saratoga County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Grant Cottage: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur-Pyrite, Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Graphite Products Corp Mine	Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer	1910, 1918, 1925
Graphite Products Corp.	Graphite, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer	Metamorphic
Graphite Products Corp.Mine	Graphite	Past Producer
Hudson Valley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hudson Valley Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Saratoga County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1900 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1935 USGS Gansevoort quadrangle1:24000
1940 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1949 USGS Schuylerville quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Gansevoort quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Gansevoort Mansion	4.5 miles	1976
Dutch Reformed Church of Gansevoort	4.6 miles	1995
International Paper Administration Building and Time Office	5.0 miles	2017
Saratoga Gas, Electric Light and Power Company Complex	7.8 miles	2001
Broadway Historic District (Boundary Increase II)	7.9 miles	1994
Broadway Historic District (Boundary Increase)	8.0 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000557 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Saratoga County	All 83 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.