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	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center and Park - Clinton Library - architect James Polshek - operated by the National Archives and Records Administration			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Gomaco Trolley Company built replica vintage electric trolleys similar to Birney type streetcars - 410
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Robinson Auditorium - columns on the south façade of Joseph Taylor Robinson Memorial Auditorium - 414 W. Markham - architects Stern, Wittenberg and Delony			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Laws of Solon, often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy - metal wall in the garden of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: skyscrapers - Regions Center / First National Bank Building (L) by Wittenberg, Delony and Davidson Architects and Metropolitan Tower / TCBY Tower (R) desiged by Wilkins and Sims			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Arkansas State Capitol - 2100 West Capitol Avenue at Woodlane Street - architects George R. Mann and Cass Gilbert - Neoclassical style
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: City Hall - corner of Markham and Broadway - architect Charles L. Thompson, Classic Revival style - the city's first City Wall was on the second floor of a downtown liquor store			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Arkansas State Capitol - limestone façade, the stone was quarried in Batesville, Arkansas - classical portico with bronze doors
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: William E. 'Bill' Clark Presidential Park Wetlands - elevated walkaways on and by the water - wetlands along the Arkansas River			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Songahm Martial Arts Gate - Korean style gate - center doors are reserved for ceremonial occasions - H.U. Lee International Gate - Pres. Clinton avenue
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: fountain near Pulaski County Courthouse - Robinson Center in the background			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Arkansas State Capitol - detail of a bronze door reflecting Capitol Avenue - the doors were came from Tiffany's in New York
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Clinton Presidential Park Bridge, or Rock Island Bridge, is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge in downtown Little Rock near the Clinton Presidential Center - Arkansas river			Little Rock (Arkansas): Clinton Presidential Center - interior of the Clinton Library
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: parking payment, Arkansas style - push money into individual slots with a key			Little Rock (Arkansas): Little Rock Central High School - black students - focus of the 1950s Civil Rights struggle for racial integration, located on Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive (named after the civil rights leader)
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: windows and balconies of the Capital Hotel - historic Victorian building - corner of Markham and Louisiana streets			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: 'River Market Pig' - bronze sculpture of a large pig - sculptor Sandy Scott - Ottenheimer Plaza, River Marrket area
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Historic Arkansas Museum, North Entrance Plaza - Party for Peg sculpture - Arkansassy, the fiddler - cut from aluminum - by artist Alice Guffey Miller			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Heifer International headquarters and pond - Reese Rowland at Polk Stanley Yeary Architects - platinum-rated building under LEED certification
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Heifer International headquarters - Hiefer Village sign with logo - built on a reclaimed industrial brownfield - Heifers for Relief - giving animals			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: 'sculpture Homeward Bound' - Navajo girl crosses a bridge with a gift of animals - reflective of the hope and self-reliance - Heifer International headquarters - artist Allan Houser
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: mock medieval balcony with console brackets - Discovery Museum Center - Arkansas' Museum of Science & History (AMOD) - President Clinton Ave, River Market District			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Black Crappie - Pomoxis nigromaculatus - 'The Natural State' - image of a fish on an Arkansas license plate - Arkansas Game and Fish Commission - Infiniti
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Arkansas Studies Institute - rear façade - brick wall - River Market district			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Arkansas Studies Institute - repository for 10 million historic documents and the papers of seven Arkansas Governors - corner of Rock st and President Clinton ave - Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Clinton Presidential Park Bridge, or Rock Island Bridge, is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge - a former railway bridge built in 1899 for the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Old State House Museum, the state's original capitol, built in 1836 - site of the 1861 secession convention - the oldest surviving state capitol building west of the Mississippi River - Greek Revival style, by architect Gideon Shryock - 300 W. Markham
	Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Pulaski County Courthouse - houses the County Clerk - 401 W Markham St - the county is named for Count Casimir Pulaski, a Polish soldier who fought for the colonials in the rebelion against the British Empire - architect Maximilian Orlopp			Little Rock, Arkansas, USA: Old State House - Akansas coat of arms in the tympanum - over an American eagle is a shield with a steamboat, plow, beehive, and sheaf of wheat, the angel of mercy, the goddess of liberty encircled by the 13 stars of the Confederation, and the sword of justice surround the eagle, which holds in its talons an olive branch and three arrows and in its beak a banner bearing the state motto 'Regnat populus'