House Visits

Free interpretive visits to the Main House are usually offered every 30 minutes beginning at 9:30 a.m. Typically, the last house visit of the day begins at 4:00 p.m. Due to preservation and safety concerns, space is limited for each time slot and tickets (which are free, and available at the Visitor Center desk) are required to reserve a place. Please note that specific time slots may be unavailable due to heavy visitation, group reservations, maintenance activities, or inclement weather. Please call the Visitor Center at (314)842-3298 x245 or check at the Information Desk for the most current information.

What's new?

• Timothy S. Good has been named the new superintendent at Ulysses S. Grant NHS. Currently a Management Assistant in the NPS Midwest Regional Office in Omaha, Tim will be coming on board in early June. For the complete press release, click HERE.
• Bridge work on Gravois Road just west of Grant Road has been completed.
• Be sure to check out the new National Park Service website American Presidents: Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary.

Give Our Audio Tour a Listen!

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site will implement a free cell phone audio tour for visitor use this spring. The site joins Grand Canyon National Park, Arlington House National Memorial, Independence National Historical Park, Saratoga National Historical Park and many other National Park Service sites in making information available to visitors via cell phone.

The new audio tour will be available to anyone who wants to experience it, but it is aimed at giving a piece of the Grant story to visitors who do not have time to take a full-scale tour. It is a free service of the park, only costing visitors their normal fees for cell phone usage. Different stops on the tour describe Grant’s association with the property, his time farming here in St. Louis, Ulysses and Julia Grant’s courtship and marriage, the slaves at White Haven and other topics. It also answers common visitor questions such as, “Why is a house named White Haven painted green?” and “Didn’t Grant build a cabin, too?” The audio tour is not meant to replace visitors’ interaction with park rangers and volunteers. Rather, it will give visitors an additional way to connect with the park’s story, and do in a very familiar manner: through their cell phone.

If you would like to give it a listen, call (314)748-7041, and download the audio tour map HERE.

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial

In his memoirs, Grant recalled his feelings at the time of Lincoln’s assassination:

“I knew his goodness of heart, his generosity, his yielding disposition, his desire to have everybody happy, and above all his desire to see all the people of the United States enter again upon the full privileges of citizenship with equality among all.”

The two men shared the common goals of union and equality for the nation and its citizens. Today, people throughout the nation are commemorating the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, led by the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. You can learn more about events being held throughout the country by visiting www.abrahamlincoln200.org. On February 12 educators and students can participate in a National Teach In and watch a live webcast by going to www.history.com/lincoln .

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