Photograph looking south from the top of the courthouse in St. Louis looking across Market Street to the buildings beyond. Part of Broadway is visible on the right with the facades of the St. James Hotel and the Olympic Theatre.
9.25x7.25 in photograph of the Olympic Theatre Building. The first Olympic Theatre was built in 1866. That building was demolished in 1882, to be replaced by this one. The site is on Broadway between Walnut and Elm opposite the Southern Hotel and adjacent to the St. James Hotel.
St. Louis most famous street intersection: This is Grand Avenue looking north, a busy thoroughfare on which there are many theaters… in camp in world war days frequently established a "Grand amd Olive…" was the central gathering point for all the boys from the home town...
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.
