The oldest building in every state

The oldest architecture in the US ranges from forts to Catholic missions to log cabins.

From Acomo Pueblo in New Mexico, whose 250 structures have been continuously inhabited since the 12th century, to the White Horse Tavern, a bar in Newport, Rhode Island, that opened its doors in 1673, America's buildings are as historic as they are diverse. 

Keep scrolling to read about the oldest building in every state.

ALABAMA: Joel Eddins House in Huntsville

Built in 1808 (11 years before Alabama achieved statehood), the Joel Eddins log home demonstrates what houses typically looked like in the region in the early 19th century.

Although the log home was originally constructed in Ardmore, the building was moved to its current location in Huntsville's Burritt on the Mountain living history site in 2007.

ALASKA: Baranov Museum in Kodiak

Grigorii Shelikhov established the settlement of Kodiak — the first Russian settlement in Alaska — in 1784.

The Baranov Museum was originally built as a warehouse by the Russian-American Company, a trading monopoly, between 1805 and 1808. 

Not only is it the oldest building in Alaska — it's also supposedly haunted. The warehouse, which housed workers in the 19th century and was later the residence of  businessman W. J. Erskine and his family, was the site of a murder in 1886.

ARIZONA: Mission San Xavier del Bac in Tucson

Established by a Jesuit priest in 1692, Mission San Xavier was constructed in the American Indian village of Wa:k (Bac in Spanish) on Tohono O’odham tribal land in what is now Tucson.

Its nickname is the "White Dove of the Desert" thanks to its limewashed exterior, which members of the Tohono O'odham nation added between 1783 and 1797.