Grant's Tomb
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General Grant National Memorial
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Grant's Tomb at dusk
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Location of Grant's Tomb in New York City
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| Location | Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street, Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City |
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| Coordinates | 40°48′48″N 73°57′47″W / 40.81333°N 73.96306°WCoordinates: 40°48′48″N 73°57′47″W / 40.81333°N 73.96306°W |
| Area | 0.76 acre (3100 m²) |
| Built | April 27, 1897 |
| Architect | John H. Duncan |
| Architectural style | Neoclassical |
| Visitation | 80,046 (2005) |
| Website | General Grant National Memorial |
| NRHP Reference # | 66000055 |
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| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Designated NMEM | August 14, 1958 |
| Designated NYCL | November 25, 1975 |
Grant's Tomb, now formally known as General Grant National Memorial, is the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), the 18th President of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant (1826–1902). Completed in 1897, the tomb is located in Riverside Park in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, across Riverside Drive from the monumental Riverside Church. It was placed under the management of the National Park Service in 1958.
On July 23, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer at age 63 in Wilton, New York. Grant's family agreed to have his remains interred in New York City.William Russell Grace, the Mayor of New York City, wrote a letter to prominent New Yorkers the following day, to gather support for a national monument in Grant's honor. The letter read as follows:
Dear Sir: In order that the City of New York, which is to be the last resting place of General Grant, should initiate a movement to provide for the erection of a National Monument to the memory of the great soldier, and that she should do well and thoroughly her part, I respectfully request you to as one of a Committee to consider ways and means for raising the quota to be subscribed by the citizens of New York City for this object, and beg that you will attend a meeting to be held at the Mayor's office on Tuesday next, 28 inst., at three o'clock...
This preliminary meeting was attended by 85 New Yorkers and established the Committee on Organization. The chairman of the Committee was former U.S. president Chester A. Arthur; the secretary was Richard Theodore Greener. This organization would come to be known as the Grant Monument Association (GMA).
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