Place Archive

Missouri

Missouri’s St. Louis houses the Gateway Arch, designed by Eero Saarinen in 1965 to mark U.S. westward expansion, alongside the Old St. Louis County Courthouse, a site of significant 19th-century civil rights cases including Dred Scott and Virginia Minor. The defunct Creepy Crawl music venue walls preserve graffiti and flyers from local bands, reflecting an active underground music culture until its closure in 2009.

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Gateway Arch framed above the Old St. Louis County Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. — The Old Courthouse's cast-iron dome, completed in 1862, rises in front of the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis. The courthouse served as the site of the first two trials in the Dred Scott case, in which an enslaved man sued for his freedom, and later hosted Virginia Minor's 1870s lawsuit over women's voting rights. It's a National Historic Landmark and is administered by the National Park Service as part of Gateway Arch National Park.

Creepy Crawl bathroom in St. Louis covered in red and pink painted graffiti, stickers, and band flyers. — The Creepy Crawl was a St. Louis music venue that hosted punk, hardcore, and independent touring bands from the 1990s until it closed in 2009.

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