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Grant's Tomb
formally known as the General Grant National Memorial
architect: John H. Duncan
architectural style: Neoclassical, Ionic order
contractor: John T. Brady
groundbreaking ceremony April 27, 1891, first stone laid by president Benjamin Harrison
dedicated: April 27, 1897 (75th-anniversary ceremony of Grant's birth)
The final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), 18th President of the United States. It is the second largest mausoleum in the Western Hemisphere.
The allegorical figures above the cornice represent Victory (left) and Peace (right).
The tomb's exterior is modeled after the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus with Persian elements and resembles the Tropaeum Alpium.
The two eagle statues which flank the entrance were added during the 1935 restorations, saved from the demolished New York City Post Office.
Riverside Park
Upper West Side - Morningside Heights neighborhood
Riverside Drive and West 122nd Street
Manhattan, New York City, NY
