Yesterday was Grover Cleveland’s birthday. He has been in the news a bit of late, mostly because he is the only president to be defeated in a bid for re-election and then win another term in the White House four years later, a feat that Donald Trump is trying to repeat this year.
Cleveland was born March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, New Jersey, and later moved to Buffalo, where he built his political career. Cleveland’s New Jersey birthplace is a State Historic Site, but there are few remaining vestiges of the former president’s life in Buffalo, where he served as Mayor before becoming Governor of New York.
There is one other Cleveland home still standing, however, which is the house pictured here. The Westland Mansion in Princeton, New Jersey, was Cleveland’s home during his post-presidential life. Cleveland lived here from 1897 until his death in 1908. It’s located in the Princeton historic district, not far from campus, and students used to march to the house after football victories or to serenade Cleveland on his birthday.
Two of Cleveland’s five children were born during his retirement in Princeton. He was 49-years-old and already president when he married for the first time (his wife, Frances, was 21 at the time), so he had children later in life. The youngest was born in 1903.
This house is a private residence. It’s a National Historic Site but is not open to the public.
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