Custom House

A Custom House was a building housing the offices for the government officials who processed the paperwork for the import and export of goods into and out of a country.

Custom House or Customs House may also refer to:

Buildings

• Customs House, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia
• Customs House, Sydney in New South Wales, Australia
• Fremantle Customs House in Western Australia, Australia
• Custom House, Montreal, Canada
• Customs House, Shanghai, China
• The Custom House, Dublin, Ireland
• Customs House, Porsgrunn, Norway
• Custom House, City of London, a building in the City of London next to Old Billingsgate Market, UK
• The Customs House, South Shields, a theatre and arts centre in Tyneside, England, UK
• Boston Custom House, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
• Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in Manhattan, New York, U.S.
• Customs House (Sodus Point, New York), U.S.

Other uses

• Custom House (global payments), a global payments and foreign exchange company
• Custom House, London, a district of the London Borough of Newham, UK
  • Custom House station in London, UK
• "The Custom-House", Nathaniel Hawthorne's introductory essay to The Scarlet Letter

See also

• Customs broking
• Old Customhouse (disambiguation)