President Gerald R. Ford Jr. Boyhood Home - Grand Rapids, MI
N 42° 57.040 W 085° 39.265
16T E 609764 N 4756215
The President Gerald R. Ford Jr. Boyhood Home is located at 649 Union Avenue SE in Grand Rapids, MI. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places February 27, 1995
Waymark Code: WM1BB1J
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 01/08/2025
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Gerald Ford would live in this house 1921 through 1930, when he was between the age of 8 and 17. From the State of Michigan Historical Marker at the house:
Gerald R. Ford, the thirty-eighth president of the U.S., lived here from age 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 get to the second floor--or so I thought.” Ford served Grand Rapids in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1949-1973.
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