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Julia and Ulysses S. Grant House

Color postcard of a pink two-story clapboard home with a picket fence

Julia and Ulysses S. Grant House

As newlyweds, young army officer Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant, lived in this Detroit house from 1849 to 1850. The house is also historically significant for its connection to the Black Bottom neighborhood in which it spent its first century.

Julia D. and Ulysses S. Grant Home
Corner of Orleans and Wilkins Streets
Detroit's Eastern Market

The Michigan History Center and Black Bottom Archives, a Detroit community organization, are working together to turn the house into a welcoming place for learning and community conversation. The house is currently under extensive renovation and is closed to the public.

A two-story white clapboard home with dark shutters and trim.
Project
A crane lifts the second story of a white clapboard home off the first story.
The House
a two-story home is moved on two large trucks - one story on each - down a busy urban street.
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