President Gerald R. Ford Jr. Boyhood Home
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| Location | 649 Union SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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| Architect | Unknown |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 95000073[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 27, 1995 |
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. It is located at 649 Union SE in Grand Rapids.
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.
In 2013 the house underwent an exterior paint restoration, using seven colors and taking more than 500 man-hours. The work was completed by Third Coast Color Painting Co. of Grand Rapids.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
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