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Circuit Courtroom No. 4 in the old Federal/State Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri (1839-1864)

This courtroom is directly above the one in which the trial court proceedings in the Dred Scott case occurred, and since the one below it has been substantially altered, it is thought that this best represents how the Scott case courtroom would have originally appeared.

 

It is also the place where the later Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis was first sworn into become member of the Bar. Originally from Louisville, he practiced law briefly in St. Louis before relocating to Boston. That his his bust over on the left side.

 

Note that the old Courthouse is part of Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis:

 

www.nps.gov/jeff/index.htm

 

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