Hinderliter Grog Shop

If there is one thing the city of Little Rock loves doing, it's knocking down old buildings and replacing them with parking lots. So it's always nice to see buildings that have survived the wrecking ball. One such building is the old Hinderliter Grog Shop. This unassuming structure actually holds the claim as being the oldest building still standing in Little Rock (I love that our oldest building was a bar). It as built in 1826, back when Little Rock was just a fledgling little frontier town. In 1835, right before Arkansas became a state, it's thought that the territorial government met here (which makes it a capitol building, sort of). By the 1930s, the building was getting a bit run-down and was nearly condemned, but preservationists stepped in and preserved it. The building is now part of the Historic Arkansas Museum.