Georgetown Custom House and Post Office
- Architect
- Ammi B. Young
- Year
- 1858
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
Completed in 1858 for $55,468, the Georgetown Customhouse and Post Office was designed by Ammi B. Young, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, in a Renaissance Revival-Italian Palace style. The first floor housed a branch post office and the second floor the Customs Service, packing two federal functions into one small building.
the building
A federal building in miniature. The main block measures just 61 by 46 feet, with later additions to the north and east, capped by a low seamed-metal roof.
the style
Young worked in the Renaissance Revival-Italian Palace style, an idiom he used across the series of federal customhouses and post offices he designed as Supervising Architect of the Treasury.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
Ammi B. Young (1798-1874) served as Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury and designed the building in 1856-57.
significance
It is DC Historic Landmark #L_0170, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and a contributing building within the Georgetown Historic District. Customs operations moved out in 1967, though a small post office branch remains on the first floor.
nearby
- Old Stone House
- Beall, Thomas, House (Newton D. Baker House)
- City Tavern
- Grace Church (Grace Protestant Episcopal Church)
- Mount Zion United Methodist Church
- Saint John's Church, Georgetown