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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.
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, 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 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.
History
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, 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.
See also
Customs broking
References
External links
"U.S. Custom House, Philadelphia, PA". General Services Administration.
"Custom House, Leith" (PDF). Scottish Historic Buildings Trust. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-03-17. Retrieved 2020-03-17.
Custom House or Customs House may refer to:
Buildings
Custom house, a building housing the offices that process the tariffs associated with importing and exporting goods
= Australia
=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
=Custom House, Montreal, Canada
= China
=Customs House, Shanghai
= Ireland
=The Custom House, Cork
The Old Custom House, Dublin
The Custom House, Dublin
Custom House, Belfast
The Custom House, Limerick
= Myanmar (Burma)
=Customs House, Yangon
= Norway
=Customs House, Porsgrunn
Tollerodden, Larvik
= Thailand
=Customs House, Bangkok
= United Kingdom
=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, a station serving the DLR and Elizabeth line
= United States
=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
Custom House (global payments), 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
Customs broking
Customs House Hotel (disambiguation)
Old Customhouse (disambiguation)
Customs house agent, type of licensed agent in India
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