Danish Custom House St Croix Virgin Islands 3D model

Christiansted blends vistas of neo-classicism with a lovely natural setting of high hills and reef-fringed harbor. The town's orderly development came over two centuries owes to much of the islands first governor, Frederick Moth. ... Christiansted took shape at a liberating moment in architecture. The neoclassic style of the 1700's came to dominate the Danish islands, reflecting the wealth accumulated in their first century. The building were the work of anonymous craftsmen--masons and carperenters, many of them Free Blacks--in a day when a master mason or carpenter could both plan a building and put it up. At the Custom House (1841), one of many historical building at the Christiansted National Site in D. hamilton Jefferson Park. The government collected taxes on imports and exports in this building. The town's post office was upstairs.