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White Hall State Historic Site
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White Hall in Richmond, Kentucky, grew from Green Clay’s late-18th-century Georgian home, originally called Clermont, into a 44-room Italianate mansion remodeled under Mary Jane Warfield Clay while Cassius M. Clay served in Russia. The estate is significant for its architecture, early indoor plumbing, and surviving outbuildings, including a detached kitchen and a building that housed enslaved people. It was home to the politically prominent Clay family, linking the site to emancipation, journalism, diplomacy, and women’s suffrage through figures such as Cassius M. Clay, Mary Barr Clay, and Laura Clay. Later preservation efforts secured its restoration and continued public stewardship.
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