Bill Clinton's High School
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Future President Bill Clinton first made a name for himself as a student in Hot Springs High School. He became an all-state saxophone player in the school band, and in 1963 he went to Washington, DC, as Arkansas' delegate to Boys Nation, and shook hands with soon-to-be-dead President Kennedy.
Clinton graduated in 1964. The high school building was abandoned for a new facility during the Clinton presidency, and repurposed in 2005 into art galleries, a performance theater, and a 32-unit housing complex for the disabled. Clinton's connection to the building is noted next to its front entrance on a plaque, made from the same impossible-to-photograph engraved granite as the plaques at all the other Clinton sights in Arkansas.