What is "white hall"

White Hall is the name of many localities in the United States:

• White Hall, Alabama
• White Hall, Arkansas
• White Hall, California
• White Hall Township, Greene County, Illinois
  • White Hall, Illinois
• White Hall, Baltimore County, Maryland
• White Hall, Cecil County, Maryland
• White Hall, Prince George's County, Maryland
• White Hall, Albemarle County, Virginia
• White Hall, Frederick County, Virginia
• White Hall, West Virginia

as well as the name of several notable American buildings, many on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP):

• White Hall (Bear, Delaware), NRHP-listed
• White Hall (Daytona Beach, Florida), NRHP-listed
• White Hall (West Point, Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Harris County, Georgia
• White Hall (Whitehall, Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Clarke County, Georgia
• White Hall (Richmond, Kentucky), NRHP-listed
• White Hall Plantation House, NRHP-listed in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
• White Hall (Ellicott City, Maryland), NRHP-listed in Howard County
• White Hall (Princess Anne, Maryland), NRHP-listed in Somerset County
• White Hall (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)
• White Hall (Spring Hill, Tennessee), listed on the NRHP in Maury County, Tennessee
• White Hall (Toano, Virginia), NRHP-listed in James City County
• White Hall (Zanoni, Virginia), NRHP-listed in Gloucester County

White Hall is a historic site on the campus of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. It is located at 640 Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard (formerly 2nd Avenue.) On July 15, 1992, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

White Hall, or Chatham is a historic home located at Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, United States. It consists of three sections: the east wing, dating from the early 19th century, the center section, and the west wing. In 1890 the house was partially destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1900. Three outbuildings remain on the White Hall property: a small square frame workshop; a smokehouse-privy; and springhouse.

White Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

Early owners were Caleb Dorsey and his brother Charles Worthington Dorsey (1787-1864), the first County commissioner of the Howard District of Anne Arundel County. Charles Worthington purchased the home in 1828 from Alfred and Ann Dashiel and N.G. Ridgley. with an original building onsite. He built additions to the home in 1857 hiring the architect Nathan G. Starkweather. The home was given to Dorsey's daughter and Maryland Governor Thomas Watkins Ligon (1810-1881). Charles Worthington died at the residence on 26 May 1864. Dorsey's daughter died at the estate in 1881, followed by Governor Ligon in 1899. The house was passed down throughout the family for well over one hundred years. Cared for and owned by the Ligon and Hains family (Ligon and Hains family wed July 4, 1930). In 1965, Col Thomas Watkins Ligon sold 350 acres of surrounding land, leaving 41.3 surrounding the property. The Hains family kept the estate until the late 1990s when it was sold to the first non-family member. In 1976 a 41.3 acre easement of the property was registered to the Maryland historical Trust.

White Hall is a historic home located at Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, ell shaped frame house constructed about 1785–1798. The house features a rare mid-19th-century mural painting depicting landscapes and period costumes survives in a second-floor room, a Flemish bond brick gable end wall, and the three-room plan divided by a center hall.

White Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

White Hall (also known as Whitehall Tavern and White Hall Farm) is a house and former tavern located in Toano, Virginia. It was built in 1805 by William Geddy and is still owned and maintained by the original family. It is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places.

White Hall on the Ware River near Zanoni, Gloucester County, Virginia, was the ancestral home of the prominent Willis family of colonial Virginia.

The Willises were one of the First Families of Virginia, with the first settler arriving by 1642. Other family members include the Francis Willis (academic) and Francis Willis (Representative).

The 2 1/2-story brick home on the property since 1836 was described as "an excellent example of the temple-form dwelling so popular in this region during the early decades of the 19th Century" in a 1984 nomination for the National Register of Historic Places.

"With its classical, temple-like mass, White Hall epitomizes the neo-classical spirit which pervades early American decorative art," the nomination adds.

The nomination, approved by the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, describes the home as a mix of original construction by Dr. Samuel Powell Byrd in 1836 and a series of renovations.

The living room and dining room contain "handsome colonial revival paneling" from a 1938 restoration but mantels that are much earlier with "quirked moldings, carried on flanking Tucsan colonetts" and the original doors opening on the front porch facing the Ware River.

White Hall sits on a 7-acre tract on the Ware River near the mouth of Wilson Creek and is reached by a long, curving drive lined with mature cedars.

The house is the successor to an earlier, one-story brick house built by the Willis family.

The land was patented in 1666 by Francis Willis, the first in the family to arrive in Virginia from Oxford, England. He served as a delegate from Gloucester County to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1652.

Francis Willis returned to England and bequeathed the estate upon his death in 1690 to a nephew, Francis Willis. He is believed to have started the first house, which measured 56 feet by 22 feet. A wing added later measured 17 feet by 25 feet.

The nephew left the house to his son Francis, who became the head of a prominent Virginia family and served in the House of Burgesses in 1748.

The home is located about six miles southeast of the Gloucester County Courthouse and is one of several National Register of Historic Places listings in Gloucester County, Virginia. It is privately owned.

White Hall, also known as the William Cann Tenant House and Andrew Elliason Tenant House, is a historic home located at Bear, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in three phases during the 19th century between about 1830 and 1860, and is a two-story, five-bay frame dwelling with a gable roof. It has a 2 1/2-story rear wing that creates a "T" configuration. It is in a vernacular Greek Revival / Italianate-style. Also on the property are a contributing frame dairy barn, a concrete block milk house, and a frame implement shed, all dated to the 1930s.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

White Hall is a historic mansion in Spring Hill, Tennessee, USA.