President of the United States spent summers in this house
by BlockShopper Historian published Jan. 31, 2010
President Ulysses S. Grant used this house as a summer retreat after the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him General in Chief of the Union Army in 1864 and he retained this position until he assumed the duties of President of the United States in 1869. Grant served as President until 1877 and passed away in 1885.
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