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The Old State House

The next stop on the insides-of-Little-Rock-historical-sites was the Old State House, the “oldest surviving state capitol west of the Mississippi River.”

The Old State House

It has been chilly in Little Rock. The water in the fountain out front had a very solid layer of ice on top
Icy fountain

Nifty entrance sign

Partially finished stocking - from the object label:

Annie Maurice Strong was knitting this when she died June 10, 1894

1894 knitting

The Daughters of the American Revolution period room
DAR period room

Women’s suffrage ~~trading~~ cards
Women's suffrage trading cards

Virgie Baker, Priestess of the Stars

From “The United Daughters of the Confederacy” period room. This and the following quoted descriptions are from the Old State House Web site:

The box grand piano was made in New York in 1865 by Ernest Gables. It was presented as a wedding present to Mr. and Mrs. Fay Hempstead and donated by their daughter.

A curious pianoforte

Intricately decorated standing clock

The large standing clock was one of the decorations in the Arkansas Building at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. The inlaid design features 50,000 pieces of 27 varieties of Arkansas hardwoods applied to a base of southern pine. The clock was made by Charles Becker of Little Rock. Becker was born in Illinois, but was listed in the Little Rock census of 1890 as a painter and cabinet maker. At that time he lived with his family and two boarders on Gaines Street.

A curious grandfather clock