Cadillac-Chrysler Building

Historical marker location:

3224 Locust Street, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is on Locust Street east of North Leonard Avenue, on the right when traveling east.)

Built in 1919

The famous Dred Scott case, which helped fuel the tensions that led to the Civil War, originated in Missouri. Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom in the Missouri courts in 1857, but the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled against him.