President Gerald R., Jr. Ford Boyhood Home
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| Ford, President Gerald R., Jr., Boyhood Home | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | 649 Union SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Architect: | Unknown |
| Architectural style(s): | Colonial Revival |
| Added to NRHP: | February 27, 1995 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 95000073[1] |
| Governing body: | Private |
The President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., Boyhood Home is a house in Grand Rapids, Michigan that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Gerald R. Ford, the thirty-eighth president of the United States lived here from the age of 8 to 17 (1921 – 1930). Of all his boyhood homes, Ford remembered this one most vividly in his autobiography. Ford recalled that he and his friends used the garage behind the house as a social club. "We learned to play penny-ante poker... it was a great hideaway because my parents wouldn't climb the ladder to the second floor-- or so I thought." Ford served Grand Rapids in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1949 – 1973.
It is located at 649 Union SE in Grand Rapids.
[edit] References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
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