This lithograph shows a street view of the St. Louis Courthouse in 1840. The image includes pedestrians on the street and looks North from Market and Fourth Streets.
"Above is shown a proclaimation of 1847 and envelope discovered recently in New York by a collector of early unstamped postal letters, of which even the government had not previously had a copy. The document was issued by Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott, and it bears the name of an officer believed to have been stationed at Jefferson Barracks."
This type dwelling, one of many erected on Second and Third streets in the 1840s, was called a "row." The two doors on the sidewalk level of the building led to a court usually planted in flowers and trees.