Customs House, also known as the Old Customs House, is a historic

customs house 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 ...

located at Sodus Point in

Wayne County, New York Wayne County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 91,283. The county seat is Lyons. The name honors General Anthony Wayne, an American Revolutionary War hero and American sta ...

. It is a 25 feet wide by 35 feet deep, two story,

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

style brick structure with sandstone trim built in 1874. It was built originally as a bank building, then in 1885 was purchased by the

Pennsylvania Railroad The Pennsylvania Railroad ( reporting mark PRR), legal name as the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy," was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At its ...

, who leased it to the U.S. government for use as a customs house and post office. Government use of the building ceased in 1968.''See also:'' It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1980.

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Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Government buildings completed in 1868 Buildings and structures in Wayne County, New York Custom houses in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Wayne County, New York Custom houses on the National Register of Historic Places {{WayneCountyNY-NRHP-stub