Editing Gateway Arch National Park (section)

===Old Courthouse===
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The [[Old Courthouse (St. Louis)|Old Courthouse]] is built on land originally deeded by St. Louis founder [[Auguste Chouteau]]. It marks the location over which the arch reaches. Its dome was built during the [[American Civil War]] and is similar to the dome on the [[United States Capitol]] which was also built during the Civil War.  It was the site of the local trials in the [[Dred Scott]] case.

The courthouse is the only portion of the memorial west of [[Interstate 44 in Missouri|Interstate 44]]. To the west of the Old Courthouse is the [[St. Louis Gateway Mall|Gateway Mall]] between Market and Chestnut Streets which is only interrupted by the [[Civil Courts Building]] which features a pyramid model of the [[Mausoleum of Mausolus]] (which was one of the [[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]]) on its roof. When the Civil Courts building was built in the 1920s, the Chouteau family sued to regain the property belonging to the Old Courthouse because it had been deeded in perpetuity to be a courthouse.