Existing comment:
Preserving the Cottage and the Monument:
After the hotel burned, the cottage and the outlook were preserved, first by the Grant Army of the Republic, and then by New York State. Today, the Friends of Ulysses S. Grant Cottage manage the site in cooperation with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and the New York State Department of Corrections.
"The monument is built upon a concrete base and has a protective railing placed there by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to prevent visitors from taking chips off the monument which some years ago had to be recut because of that reason." -- Excerpt from "The Passing of the Pine," by J.F. O'Neill in the Mount McGregor Optimist, Jan, 1923. |