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White Haven: Home of the Grant and Dent families and enslaved African Americans

White Haven Through the Years
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White Haven Through the Years

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Photos of President Grant's home White Haven from 1840 through present day.


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  • Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

    White Haven

    Photo of a bright green, two-story house with a two story front porch, situated among several trees

    Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious Civil War general who saved the Union and the 18th President of the United States, first met Julia Dent, his future wife, at her family home, named White Haven. Today, that home commemorates their lives and loving partnership against the turbulent backdrop of the nineteenth century.

  • Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

    Stable at White Haven

    red wooden stable with snow on roof and ground. Trees in foreground have flowering buds.

    Historic stable designed by Grant while President of the United States. He had plans for establishing a horse-breeding farm at White Haven. Today, the structure houses the park's museum exhibits.

  • Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

    Ice House and Chicken House

    two wooden structures, painted red. Ice house is on the left and chicken house is on the right

    The ice house and chicken house are two of the remaining outbuildings from White Haven. The ice house was built around 1840 and the chicken house dates from 1850 to 1870.

  • Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

    Summer Kitchen

    stone building with a chimney on each end. Two doors on long side. Man entering door on right.

    This stone building, located behind White Haven, consists of two rooms. Before the Civil War, the enslaved used this building for laundry and summer cooking.

  • Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

    Hardscrabble: The House That Grant Built

    The Hardscrabble log cabin with Howitzer cannons in the foreground.

    While living at the White Haven property in St. Louis, Missouri, Ulysses S. Grant constructed a log cabin named "Hardscrabble." Despite taking more than a year to build the house, the Grant family only lived in it for three months in late 1856. Hardscrabble nevertheless remains a living legacy to Grant's life as a St. Louis farmer.

Last updated: July 14, 2022