Ulysses Grant

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I googled around and found an interesting article from the Detroit Free Press dated March 12, 2015. Just in case you don't have these names on the SUV hit list for contacting about the Grant Home, Bill, this article mentions the following historians who have been working on the project: Sandra Clark, Director of the Michigan Historical Center, and Kimberly Johnson of the same group, who has been researching the house. The article also listed Jack Dempsey of Plymouth as the President of the Michigan Historical Society who has worked for years to save the house. Go get 'em.

Supposedly, $222,000 has been granted for the move and stabilization of the house. At that time, they had a deal with a Detroit school to place it on their campus. So what's the hold-up?

Speaking of Henry Ford's museum in Dearborn, Miss Bellatrix (and a warm welcome to you!), this same article says that the house was offered to Ford's museum, but was turned down because its history did not meet the standards of that museum's mission.

Here's a description of the house in 1849 from a letter written to Julia Grant from Ulysses upon his renting the house:

Ulysses S. Grant wrote to his wife, Julia, on April 27, 1849, about the house:

"My dearest Julia ... I have rented a neat little house in the same neighborhood with (two of his fellow officers). In the lower part of the house, there is a neat double parlor, a dining room, one small bedroom and kitchen. There is a nice upstairs and a garden filled with the best kind of fruit. There is a long arbor grown over with vines that will bear fine grapes in abundance for us and to give away. There are currants and plum and peach trees and in fact everything that the place could want to make it comfortable. I will have a soldier at work in the garden next week so that by the time you get here, everything will be in the nicest order.

— Yours devotedly, Ulys"