The Gann Building

Dr. Dewell Gann Sr. built his office at 218 Market Street in 1893 from bauxite, with help from patients who could not pay in cash. It is the only known building made of that ore, and an imprint of his foot is still visible on an inside wall. His son, Dr. Dewell Gann Jr., who developed a resuscitator, gave it to Benton in 1946, first as a library. The National Register listed it in 1975, and it became the Gann Museum of Saline County in 1980. Inside are Sebert Magby's wood carvings, including a panorama on David O. Dodd.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pinnacle Mountain State Park — 20 mi
  A day-use state park west of Little Rock around a 1,011-foot Ouachita peak, with a strenuous summit trail, the Arkansas Arboretum and a visitor center above the Arkansas River.
• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — 21 mi
  The 1927 high school where nine Black students entered under federal troops on September 25, 1957, with a National Park Service visitor center across the intersection.
• Big Dam Bridge — 21 mi
  A 14-foot-wide walking and cycling bridge built onto Murray Lock and Dam, 90 feet over the Arkansas River between Little Rock and North Little Rock.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 21 mi
  The neo-classical Capitol built from 1899 to 1915 on the old penitentiary site with state convict labor, free to enter, with the Little Rock Nine monument on the grounds.

More markers nearby

• Old Southwest Trail — steps away
• Saline County Records — 0.2 mi
• Saline County in the Civil War — 0.3 mi
• The Benton Courier — 0.3 mi