What is Grant's Tomb?
[[File:Grant's Tomb MAM 2010 (2).JPG|thumb|right|200px|Grant's Tomb, July 2010]] '''General Grant National Memorial''' or '''Grant's Tomb''' is a memorial and resting place of 18th President of the [[United States of America|United States]] and [[American Civil War|Civil War]] general [[Ulysses S. Grant]] and his wife [[Julia Grant]]. The tomb is in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Kahn |first=David |date=January 1980 |title=General Grant National Memorial Historical Resource Study |publisher=Manhattan Cites |url=http://www.nps.gov/gegr/forteachers/upload/Kahn-Historic-Resource-Study-1980.pdf |format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]] |ref=Kahn}}</ref> The tomb was constructed by the [[United States Congress]]. The tomb was constructed in 1890 (five years after Grant's death) and was finished on April 22 1897 (Grant's 75th birthday). In 1902, [[Julia Grant]] died and was later buried in the tomb. The tomb was decaying or falling apart and was vandalised during the 1980s until the tomb was fixed and restored in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cityarts.org/grants-tomb-restoration.html |title=CITYarts project to restore The Rolling Bench |access-date=2012-12-15 |archive-date=2009-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204182634/http://cityarts.org/grants-tomb-restoration.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The tomb was rededicated in April 27, 1997. It was later named an United States National Landmark. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} *{{Official website|http://www.nps.gov/gegr/}} *[http://www.grantstomb.org Grant Monument Association] *[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/e_funeral.html Grant's funeral and the mausoleum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903075839/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/e_funeral.html |date=2009-09-03 }} {{US-stub}} [[Category:1897 establishments in the United States]] [[Category:Ulysses S. Grant]] [[Category:Landmarks in Manhattan]] [[Category