Mary Todd Lincoln House

Kentucky, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, Kentucky, is a fourteen-room Georgian structure built circa 1803–1806 that originally served as an inn and tavern called "The Sign of the Green Tree." Robert Smith Todd purchased the three-story home for his family in 1832, and his daughter Mary Todd lived there until 1839, when she moved to Springfield, Illinois. Mary Todd later became the wife of the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, and the couple visited the house together after their marriage. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the home functions as a museum displaying period furnishings, family portraits, and artifacts that chronicle Mary Todd Lincoln's life from her privileged upbringing in a wealthy, slave-holding family through her later years as a reclusive widow.