Photograph of St. Louis from the top of the courthouse looking west. On the left, looking down Market, the Grand Opera House is visible. The opera house was built in 1885 on the site of a previous theater. The police department's Four Courts building is visible in the distance just above the opera house. In the center of the photograph at some distance are two tall buildings. The one on the left is the Missouri Pacific Building on Market, also called the Buder Building, which occupied the St. Louis skyline from 1902 to 1984. The one on the right is the Lincoln Trust Building which stood from 1897 to 1983. To the right of the Lincoln Trust Building, across Chestnut street is the Wainwright Building.