Historic Arkansas Museum
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Historic Arkansas Museum is a museum in Arkansas, at a modelled elevation of 85 m. Moss Mountain stands 337 m to the west-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is H.U. Lee International Gate and Garden, a park 0.1 miles away. Great River Road passes 62 miles off.
The story
The Historic Arkansas Museum (HAM) is a state history museum in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. The museum was created as part of the Arkansas Territorial Capitol Restoration Commission, by Act 388 of the 1939 Arkansas General Assembly. The act named Louise Loughborough as chairwoman of the commission. Loughborough had been named to the Little Rock Planning Commission in 1935. Several houses near Cumberland and East 3rd Streets in downtown Little Rock were going to be condemned, including the Hinderliter House, the oldest building in Little Rock. Loughborough started a public relations campaign around Little Rock as a "town of three Capitols": the Hinderliter House, the Old State House, and the current Arkansas State Capitol Building. Use of the Hinderliter House as the last meeting place of the Arkansas Territorial Legislature has remained part of popular folklore, though it is not known if it was used for this purpose. Loughborough then gained support from the Works Progress Administration, the Arkansas General Assembly, and private donors. Loughborough worked with architect Max Mayer to restore the half-block of houses at Cumberland and East 3rd Street in downtown Little Rock. The Museum opened on July 19, 1941. The museum maintains gallery space and a number of historic buildings original to the site, as well as log structures transported from around the state. It was previously known as the Arkansas Territorial Restoration, but the name was changed in 2001 when new exhibit space and renovations were completed. The museum is an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations program. The museum property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019 as the Arkansas Territorial Restoration Historic District.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1941.
Wikidata Q5773382, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 61.8 mi off the Great River Road, National
Named places within 25 miles
- H.U. Lee International Gate and Garden: 0.1 mi
- Julius Breckling Riverfront Park: 0.2 mi
- Riverfront West: 0.2 mi
- Private Simmons Bank Park: 0.2 mi
- RIverfront East: 0.3 mi
- Make a Splash: 0.1 mi
- Helping Hands: 0.2 mi
- Bust of Pulaski: 0.2 mi
- w: 0.2 mi
- The Ties That Bind: 0.2 mi
- Big Rock Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Picron Hill: 3.6 mi
- Allis Mountain: 4.5 mi
- Ermentraudt Mountain: 5.1 mi
- South Mountain: 6.3 mi
- The Little Rock: 0.2 mi
- The Little Rock: 0.2 mi
- Henry Thoreua Quote: 0.2 mi
- David O. Dodd Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Memorial to Company A: 0.6 mi
- Musuem of Discovery: 0.3 mi
- Old State House: 0.3 mi
- MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History: 0.6 mi
- William J Clinton Presidential Library: 0.6 mi
- Mosaic Templars Cultural Center: 0.6 mi
- The Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center: 0.3 mi
- USS Razorback: 0.4 mi
- Hoga (YT-146): 0.4 mi
- MacArthur Visits City Park: 0.7 mi
- Arkansas State Fairgrounds: 2.2 mi
- William E. "Bill" Clark Wetlands: 0.5 mi
- Pinnacle Mountain State Park: 13.4 mi
- Holland Bottoms WMA: 15.5 mi
- Bell Slough State Wildlife Management Area: 16.0 mi
- Bell Slough Wildlife Management Area: 16.2 mi
- The Bernice Garden: 0.8 mi
- Woodruff Community Garden: 2.3 mi
- Arkansas Arboretum: 13.4 mi
- 110 Building Master Naturalist Garden: 24.2 mi
- Cato Point: 13.3 mi
- Red Bluff: 19.6 mi
- White Bluff: 24.0 mi
- I 40 Truck Rest Area Eastbound: 16.7 mi
- I 40 Truck Rest Area Westbound: 16.7 mi
- Pavilion 1: 5.2 mi
- Quapaw Mineral Spring: 18.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.6 miles of Historic Arkansas Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moss Mountain | WNW 285° | 337 m | 23.5 mi |
| Fall Mountain | WNW 285° | 332 m | 24.5 mi |
| Shinall Mountain | WNW 286° | 320 m | 13.4 mi |
| Pinnacle Mountain | WNW 298° | 308 m | 14.0 mi |
| Rattlesnake Mountain | WNW 284° | 295 m | 23.8 mi |
| Crystal Mountain | WNW 285° | 280 m | 12.3 mi |
| Bear Den Mountain | WNW 285° | 277 m | 12.6 mi |
| Ball Mountain | W 275° | 251 m | 15.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:48 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:57 | 19:49 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:34 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 16:24 | 17:03 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 41 | 45 | 53 | 61 | 70 | 78 | 81 | 81 | 74 | 63 | 51 | 43 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 5.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Little Rock AP Adams FLD, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/130061664
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- Little Rock · 4 mi
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