Trying to photograph the 1880 court house in Bridgeport, CA

Years ago, there was no room at any inn in Lee Vining (between Yosemite and Mono Lake) and we were forced to go 25 miles north to Bridgeport, the county seat of Mono County. Bridgeport had a number of 19th-century whitewashed or white-painted buildings, the grandest of which was the county court house. It was built in 1880 when what is now the ghost town (and state park) of Bodie was a gold-prospecting boom town of 10,000 and short on law enforcement. Those who were arrested in Bodie were shipped to Bridgeport for trial in ways that reminded me (a former southern Arizonan and fan of "3:10 to Yuma") of prisoners in the "wild west" days of Arizona being shipped to Yuma.

I got a postcard of the court house (and some excellent prime rib from the cattle ranch just north of Bridgeport). When I returned to Bridgeport last week, I wanted to take my own (digital) photo. I was quickly puzzled about how the postcard photograph could have been taken, since there are trees that are obviously more than 15 years old in front of the building. A wide-angle lens for a vertical shot? Combining two photos?

I like trees and the oxygen they manufacture (once the leaves kick it!), and shot several photos through the trees, the first two head on (from the west):

Under what did not seem the hostile gaze of a county sheriff parked waiting for speeders (I assume), I got around to shooting at an angle, and took this photo of the Mono County Court House not through trees:

And one further southwest I forgot to post originally (and should have shot higher!):

Which one do you like best?