After using your $50 gift certificate for a delicious lunch or dinner at Spindletop Hall, take time to tour the 40 room mansion and imagine life there for Pansy Bernadette Merritt Yount who built the million dollar mansion as a showplace of Kentucky, a modern mansion of classical architecture. After her husband died at the age of 53 in 1933, leaving her their entire fortune from the Spindletop oil fields in Texas, she chose Kentucky as the place she would start anew.