The Hamburg-America Shipping Line Administrative Offices, also known as United States District Courts Building, in Charlotte Amalie in

Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Saint Thomas ( da, Sankt Thomas) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea which, together with Saint John, Water Island, Hassel Island, and Saint Croix, form a county-equivalent and constituent district of the United States Virgin ...

, was built in 1914. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1978. It was built for the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt Aktien Gesellschaft and held offices for the Superintendent Counsul and also for the Imperial German Consulate. The German connection was lost when the U.S. purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark just prior to joining World War I against Germany. It is a two-story

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building about in plan, with eight bays on its east and west facades and six on its south facade. With . Designed by German architect

Fritz Klein Fritz Klein (24 November 1888 – 13 December 1945) was an Austrian Nazi doctor and war criminal, hanged for his role in atrocities at Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust. Early life and educ ...

, it is one of the United States' earlier examples of

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. In 1978 it housed the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, the U.S. Marshal Service, and the U.S. District Court.

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* National Register of Historic Places in the United States Virgin Islands Buildings and structures completed in 1914 Courthouses in the United States 1914 establishments in North America 1910s establishments in the Caribbean 1914 establishments in Denmark 20th-century establishments in the Danish West Indies Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands {{VirginIslands-NRHP-stub