October 27, 2009

When Arkansas’s third territorial governor, John Pope, engaged architect Gideon Shryock to design a capitol building in 1833, he envisioned a structure that “would command the admiration and respect of the passing stranger, and have moral and political influence on the whole community.” The building, shown here in 1978, has served many purposes since the state government left it in 1911 to relocate to the new capitol. Today, it is the home of the widely respected Old State House Museum.

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