White Hall State Shrine

White Hall was the home of Cassius Marcellus Clay: emancipationist, newspaper publisher, Minister to Russia, and friend to Abraham Lincoln.  Clay's daughter, Laura Clay, was born at White Hall in 1849 and was politically active for women's suffrage and states' rights.  In 1920 she was the first woman to be nominated for US President by a major political party.  This restored 44-room Italianate mansion was built in 1799 and remodeled in the 1860's.