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Old Custom House (Cairo, Illinois) 1907
Old Custom House or similar may refer to: *Old Custom House (Cairo, Illinois) *Old Custom House (Yorktown, Virginia) *Old Custom House, Montreal *Old Customs House (Bangkok) *Old Customs House (Knoxville, Tennessee) *Old Customs House, Fremantle, Western Australia *Old Customhouse (Monterey, California) *Old Customshouse (Erie, Pennsylvania) *Old Customshouse (Wilmington, Delaware) *United States Customhouse and Post Office (Wiscasset, Maine), sometimes called Old Customhouse *The Old Custom House, Dublin, Old Custom House, Dublin, Ireland See also *Custom House (other) *Old Customs Buildings, Mexico City *Customs house agent, type of licensed agent in India {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Custom House (Cairo, Illinois)
The Old Custom House is a historic government building in downtown Cairo, Illinois, Cairo, Illinois. Built from 1869 to 1872, the building served as a customs house, post office, and courthouse. Alfred B. Mullett, the U.S. Office of the Supervising Architect, Supervising Architect at the time, designed the building in the Italianate architecture, Italianate style, a rarity among federal buildings; his design features a bracket (architecture), bracketed cornice and rounded windows. When Cairo built a new post office in 1942, the building became the town's police station. The building is one of the few surviving U.S. custom houses and one of the largest federal buildings of its era in the Mid-Mississippi Valley region. The custom house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1973. It now serves as a history museum. In celebration of the 2018 Illinois Bicentennial, Cairo Custom House was selected as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places by the American Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |