A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“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.”
Wikipedia article Grant Boyhood Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 21 National Register listings in Brown County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Brown County.
National Register reference number.76001374- 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.
Fires near this property
1 since 2020
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Grant, Ulysses S., Boyhood Home between
2020 and 2020, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 375 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Grant, Ulysses S., Boyhood Home between 1885 and
1974: 291 Animalia, 74 Fungi, 10 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A JOHN, A. Braun, Ahles, H.E. and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Grant, Ulysses S., Boyhood Home: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Georgetown, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 6 flood, 2 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Three to four feet of water was reported over Highway 52 between Higginsport and Ripley. Mud was covering the roadway near Free Soil Road. A tree was downed across A and P Road. Fire crews were working to clean up the roadways. This flooding occurred due to persistent heavy rainfall.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
2,859 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
faced onto Water Street, built in 1823. In 1824 a one-story, kitchen addition was added to the north side (now gone) and shortly after a one-story, lean-to was added Today the front portion has a 3-bay facade, the entrance placed to the left. The door the east side has a small, 4 pane window, offset in the gable end, and a single window, Steps lead down from the left side of the porch to the walkway. not aligned with the top of the door but, rather, is higher than the door by one large, central, exterior chimney and a 6/6 pane window to the left of it on the the left and a 6/6 pane window to the right. The roofs of both brick portions are gable, covered with shingles.
The entire house The interior is in excellent condition, woodwork, floors, walls, and fireplaces CONDITION UNEXPOSED MOVED EXCELLENT UNALTERED DETERIORATED DATE DESCRIPTION FAIR is painted white. addition was placed at right angles to the original brick portion, facing onto XALTERED The original portion of the house was a two room, two story,brick structure which with the one-story, shed-roofed portion in the L.Both brick portions are built XORIGINAL SITE floor of this side is covered by the one-story addition (1824) which has a door to Floors are oak and ash. X-GOOD is deeply recessed, both the recess and door are paneled wood. There is a three light Windows on the first floor are 2/2. The second floor has a center one-story, flat roofed porch has been added across the front of the house.
Rectangular are original. Inside walls are brick, painted white with pale blue woodwork. to the west side, the full width of the house.
and first native Ohioan to be elected Chief Executive, lived in this house Grant, his father, built the house (1823-1828) and owned the property until 1847. 1400-1499 1700-1799 INVENTION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ART X1800-1899 LAW PERIOD EDUCATION PREHISTORIC PHILOSOPHY RELIGION ARCHITECTURE SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER/ARCHITECT Jesse Grant 1900- AGRICULTURE TRANSPORTATION THEATER SCIENCE _COMMUNICATIONS SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN MUSIC Point Military Academy where he began a military career which culminated with his INDUSTRY appointment as a five-star general and general-in-chief of the Armies of the United -COMMERCE privately owned and maintained as a museum and shown free-of-charge by appointment.
- EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT The simple architecture of his boyhood home reflects his humble background as the throughout his boyhood years 1824-1839,until he went to West Point.Jesse R. It is marked as a historic site by the Ohio Historical Society. _CONSERVATION States and the Union's greatest Civil War general. Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of the Armies of the United States,18th president -1600-1699 _LITERATURE - ENGINEERING _ECONOMICS ARCHEULUGY-PREHISTORIC COMMUNITY PLANNING son of a tanner as well as his rural beginnings in southern Ohio. The home is and two brothers grew up and were educated.In 1839 Ulysses left to enter West 9
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001374, 18 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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