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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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The Gateway Arch, a stainless steel curve, stands behind the Old St. Louis County Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. The Arch commemorates westward expansion, and the Courthouse was the site of the Dred Scott case. — The Gateway Arch, a stainless steel catenary curve, stands behind the Old St. Louis County Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. Completed in 1965, the Gateway Arch was designed by Eero Saarinen to commemorate the westward expansion of the United States. The Old Courthouse, completed in 1862, is a National Historic Landmark that served as the site of the Dred Scott case and Virginia Minor's lawsuit for suffrage. Today, both structures are part of the Gateway Arch National Park.

The graffiti-covered bathroom of the former Creepy Crawl music venue in St. Louis, Missouri, which closed in 2009. — The bathroom of the former Creepy Crawl music venue in St. Louis, Missouri, is covered in graffiti and flyers from bands that performed there. The venue, which operated from the late 1990s until its closure in 2009, was a significant space for the local independent music scene. This space served as a canvas for the venue's patrons and performers, reflecting the vibrant and often ephemeral culture of underground music.

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