Old Customshouse (Wilmington, Delaware)
The Old Customshouse is a historic government building at 516 North King Street in Wilmington, Delaware. It was built in 1855 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Old Customshouse in front of the new Courthouse
U. S. Customhouse, Wilmington, DE 518 N. King Street, Wilmington, Delaware 1991
U. S. Customhouse, Wilmington, 518 King Street, Wilmington, DE 1901
Old Customs House, King at Sixth Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE
Ammi Burnham Young was a 19th-century American architect whose commissions transitioned from the Greek Revival to the Neo-Renaissance styles. His design of the second Vermont State House brought him fame and success, which eventually led him to become the first Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department. As federal architect, he was responsible for creating across the United States numerous custom houses, post offices, courthouses and hospitals, many of which are today on the National Register. His traditional architectural forms lent a sense of grandeur and permanence to the new country's institutions and communities. Young pioneered the use of iron in construction.
Ammi B. Young
Boston Custom House showing transverse section plan
Custom House, Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1905
Custom House and Post Office, Mobile, Alabama, in 1901