A custom house or customs house was traditionally a building housing the offices for a jurisdictional government whose officials oversaw the functions associated with importing and exporting goods into and out of a country, such as collecting customs duty on imported goods. A custom house was typically located in a seaport or in a city on a major river, with access to an ocean. These cities acted as ports of entry into a country.
12-1873: [REDACTED] Look up custom house or Custom House in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Custom House or Customs House may refer to: Buildings [ edit ] Custom house , a building housing the offices that process the tariffs associated with importing and exporting goods Australia [ edit ] Customs House, Brisbane , Queensland Customs House, Maryborough , Queensland Customs House, Rockhampton , Queensland Customs House, Sydney , New South Wales Fremantle Customs House , Western Australia Newcastle Customs House , New South Wales Canada [ edit ] Custom House, Montreal , Canada China [ edit ] Customs House, Shanghai Ireland [ edit ] The Custom House, Cork The Old Custom House, Dublin The Custom House , Dublin Custom House, Belfast The Custom House, Limerick Myanmar (Burma) [ edit ] Customs House, Yangon Norway [ edit ] Customs House, Porsgrunn Tollerodden, Larvik Thailand [ edit ] Customs House, Bangkok United Kingdom [ edit ] Custom House, Barrow-in-Furness , England Custom House, Belfast , Northern Ireland Custom House, Exeter , England Custom House, Lancaster , England Custom House, Liverpool , England Custom House, City of London Custom House, Newham , London, England Customs House, Newcastle upon Tyne , England Custom House, Poole , England Customs House, South Shields , Tyneside, England Custom House, Weymouth , England Custom House station ,
24-528: A global payments and foreign exchange company Custom House Stadium, a name for West Ham Stadium "The Custom-House", Nathaniel Hawthorne's introductory essay to The Scarlet Letter Custom House, an imprint of William Morrow and Company See also [ edit ] Customs broking Customs House Hotel (disambiguation) Old Customhouse (disambiguation) Customs house agent , type of licensed agent in India Topics referred to by
36-662: A retail space throughout the nineteenth century. Later occupants included painters, a tobacconist, and a wine and liquor merchant. A short walk from the Salem Maritime National Historic Site are the Chestnut Street District , Federal Street District , Downtown Salem District , Bridge Street Neck Historic District , Charter Street Historic District , Crombie Street District , Derby Waterfront District , Essex Institute Historic District , Salem Willows Historic District and
48-661: A station serving the DLR and Elizabeth line United States [ edit ] Old Custom House (Monterey, California) United States Customs House (Chicago) Boston Custom House , Boston, Massachusetts Custom House (Salem, Massachusetts) United States Custom House (New York City) Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House , New York City Custom House (Sag Harbor, New York) Customs House (Sodus Point, New York) United States Customhouse (Portland, Oregon) Customs House (Nashville, Tennessee) Other uses [ edit ] Custom House (global payments) ,
60-590: Is a National Historic Site consisting of 12 historic structures, one replica tall-ship, and about 9 acres (36,000 m ) of land along the waterfront of Salem Harbor in Salem, Massachusetts , United States. Salem Maritime is the first National Historic Site established in the United States (March 17, 1938). It interprets the Triangle Trade during the colonial period, in cotton, rum, sugar and slaves;
72-504: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages custom house Due to advances in electronic information systems, the increased volume of international trade, and the introduction of air travel, the term "custom house" became a historical anachronism. There are many examples of buildings around the world that were formerly used as custom houses but have since been converted for other uses, such as museums or civic buildings. As examples,
84-1097: The actions of privateers during the American Revolution ; and global maritime trade with the Far East , after independence. The National Park Service manages both the National Historic Site and a Regional Visitor Center in downtown Salem. The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior . In 2014, the National Park Service , which runs the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, released figures and statistics for 2012: there were 756,038 visitors to Salem who spent an estimated $ 40,000,000. The National Park Service celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2016. The site preserves and interprets numerous maritime resources in
96-439: The form of artifacts, collections and structures, including: By 1836, Charles Dexter had a shop in this building. It was one of many that served Salem households by selling candles, oils, clothing, tin, and glassware. Besides stocking general groceries such as grain, cheese, dried beans and rum, the store attracted customers with many foreign imported goods and luxuries from Europe, Asia and Africa. The store continued to operate as
108-935: The former Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in Manhattan, New York , (now the George Gustav Heye Center ) presently houses a branch of the National Museum of the American Indian , the former U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, Louisiana , is now home to the Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium , the former U.S. Custom House in San Francisco, California , now houses offices of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Social Security Administration and
120-641: The former U.S. Custom House in Baltimore, Maryland , was in 1973 serving as a Selective Service office. As of 2019 , the Custom House of Valletta in Malta was still being used for its original purpose. Custom Houses became a prominent feature of English ports after 1275, following the creation of a national system for collecting duties on overseas trade. In the United Kingdom , since 1386,
132-709: The phrase "custom house" has been in use over the term "customs house". This was after the City of London's Custom House was erected at Wool Wharf in Tower Ward , to house just the officials overseeing the Great Custom on Wool and Woolfells. The singular form was used even though in later years the City of London's Custom House served as the workplace for other customs officials as well. Custom House (Salem, Massachusetts) The Salem Maritime National Historic Site
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