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- Customhouse and Post Office, Christiansted Warf Square vicinity, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI
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- Customhouse and Post Office, Christiansted Warf Square vicinity, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI
Description
Von Meley; Von Magens, Johannes; Lovmand, Albert; Hingelberg, Building Inspector; de Nully, Peter; Aylmer, Thomas; Aylmer, John; Danish West India and Guinea Company; Everett, J Michael, delineator; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Overby, Osmund R, historian; Gjessing, Frederick C, historian; Everett, J Michael, historian
Depicted place Virgin Islands (US); St. Croix; Christiansted
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS VI,1-CHRIS,3-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Christiansted, as the chief port of St. Croix, was an important trading center in the 18th and 19th centuries; it exported large quantities of sugar, rum, and molasses. This building, which was the Christiansted Customs House from the 1760s to 1878, was therefore of considerable importance to the economic life of the community, and is now preserved as part of the Christiansted National Historic Site.

A brick and rubble masonry structure constructed in 1828-1829 on the site of and probably incorporating walls of an earlier building. In 1840 a committee of Building Inspector Hingelberg, Peter De Nully and Mr. Naeser propsed alterations which were carried out by the contractor Albert Lovmand in 1840-1842 and the building received its present design and general character. New roofs were laid in 1847, and in 1905 the existing roof was constructed above the earlier one, which remained in place, and the parapet walls were raised to their present height. The building served as a custom house from 1828 to 1878, as a post office from 1878-1926 and from 1926 to the present as a public library among other uses.

  • Survey number: HABS VI-4
  • Building/structure dates: 1751-1752 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1805 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1828-1830 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1840-1842 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/vi0064.photos.166273p
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