Custom House

Custom House

Image by Micah A. Ponce
Located at the end of the City Market at 200 East Bay Street, the Custom House was originally designed by one of America's most prominent architects Ammi B. Young. The building was completed after the Civil War and is Charleston's largest stone building. In Porgy and Bess, Porgy sets off for New York to find Bess with this as his only landmark.

I've had this one for a while but forgot to upload it.

Customs House

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The Nashville customs house was built in 1877 and designed by William A. Potter. Like many customs houses, it also contained a post office and federal courtrooms.

Customs House

Image by joseph a
The Nashville customs house was built in 1877 and designed by William A. Potter. Like many customs houses, it also contained a post office and federal courtrooms.

Customs House

Image by susanvg
Sitting at Place Royale, and now part of Pointe-à-Callière Museum, an archaeology museum, this was once the Customs House for the Port of Montreal. From the museum site "This building, designed by architect John Ostell, dates back to 1836–1837 and originally housed Montréal’s first Custom House (its name means “the Old Custom House”). It was expanded in 1881."

I love the layers of history you see from here, the art deco building peeking up from behind, the outline of an old stone structure on the newer brick building. Thankfully we have preserved some of our heritage. Buildings have been lost to fire and to the wreckers ball to be replaced by the next generation of architecture. I think of what the people of the past must have lived and endured as I walk here on a sunny April day.

Custom House Tower

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One of Boston's tallest buildings, the 100-year-old Custom House Tower, is now a hotel run by Marriot in the Financial District.

It's one of the most recognizable Bostonian buildings, in my eyes, and looks marvelous in sunsetted HDR :)