Old Fashioned Justice

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Yesterday's posts on this blog and Downtown St. Louis 365 featured the two statues you can just see here, flanking the entrance to the Mel Carnahan Courthouse. The words engraved over the 14 Egyptian-style, lotus-capped columns say United States Courthouse but, as mentioned, the state took it over for the Circuit Court for the City of St. Louis. All American attorneys take a course in law school on federal jurisdiction. My professor once gave a 50 minute lecture of the deep metaphor he saw between this subject and the Comet Kohoutek. No wonder I still don't understand it.

Notice the sheriff's van parked in front of the courthouse? Check out the details on Downtown St. Louis 365.

Archives Dumpster Diving

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I am so out of material. Too much time out of town, too much work in town. So I'm scrounging around in the archives and found this. I don't think I've posted it before. It's the state courthouse downtown. Some of this could be the setting for a new header for this blog - I got an idea - but I need help to set it up. Any locals interested?

Better go find an Arch picture for tomorrow.

Depression-Era Civic Architecture

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For decades, this building housed the federal courts in St. Louis. When the feds built this shiny new building in the next block, they gave the old one to the state. It now holds the 22nd Judicial Circuit of Missouri, the St. Louis Circuit Court. This went up as federal construction during the Depression. Like much other government architecture of the era, it has a sense of power, heaviness and bombast. Maybe that's why an HDR image suits it so well.

I think we'll go back to the artists portraits tomorrow. Maybe I could feature myself.