History buffs can’t miss the opportunity to tour the home and grounds of the famous Kentucky statesman who served both in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. Henry Clay, who was also Secretary of State, resided in this 18- room Italianate-style house from 1806 until his death in 1852. The original plantation sprawled over 600 acres and...

Completed in 1830, this building was used as the Kentucky state capitol for about 80 years. Built in the Greek Revival style, which was new to Kentucky at the time, the building features a self-supporting marble staircase. This architectural marvel is held together with pressure and precision. Tour the House and Senate chambers furnished with 1830s reproduction desks and chairs...

Tour this Greek Revival Antebellum home, built by the Bryan family in 1848. The tour includes the home, three original outbuildings, slave quarters, smokehouse and ice house.

To get a real feel for the past, tour this 44-room mansion, complete with slave quarters and outbuildings. Home to Kentucky statesman Cassius Marcellus Clay, the restored Italianate mansion was built in 1798 and remodeled in the 1860s. So the furnishings are not exactly modern. Costumed guides play their parts well.