Grant Cottage State Historic Site

Grant Cottage is an Adirondack mountain cottage on the slope of Mount McGregor in the town of Moreau, New York, where Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, died of throat cancer on July 23, 1885. Originally owned by the New York banker Joseph William Drexel, it was kept as a shrine to Grant by the Mount McGregor Memorial Association and a series of live-in caretakers, became a New York State Historic Site in 1957, entered the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021. It is now a historic house museum furnished as it stood on the day Grant died, with the parlor bed, original funeral flowers and a clock stopped at 8:08 am. The grounds, once surrounded by a Victorian resort hotel lost to fire in 1897, now cover 43 acres and open seasonally.