Mary Todd Lincoln House

The Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington was built around 1803 to 1806 as an inn and tavern called the Sign of the Green Tree. The Todd family moved into the three-story brick building in 1832, and Mary Todd lived there until 1839, when she left for Springfield, Illinois. It opened as a museum on June 9, 1977, and is described as the first historic site restored to honor a First Lady. Local ghost tours, including those run by U.S. Ghost Adventures, say the house is haunted by Mary herself, seen as a wispy figure of an old woman, a story linked to the grief of her later life and her turn to spiritualism after her son Willie died. The museum's own materials do not mention a ghost, so the story belongs to the tour companies rather than to the staff.