Customs House, Nashville, TN
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LSUMonica
N 36° 09.558 W 086° 46.872
16S E 519680 N 4001639
Clock mounted in tower of Old Customs House in downtown Nashville, TN.
Waymark Code: WM6A1
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 01/20/2006
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The cornerstone was laid Sept. 19, 1877, by President Rutherford B. Hayes
on the first visit of a president to the South since the Civil War.
The Customs House was designed by William A. Potter of New York and contains four sections with the center portion and clock tower being the first completed in 1882, a rear portion completed in 1903, and two side wings completed in 1916.
Opened in 1882 at 701 Broadway, it originally housed the city's post office on the ground floor. The federal Treasury Department offices were on the second, and Justice Department and courtrooms on the third.
The Customs House is an considered an outstanding example of the Victorian Gothic style of architecture.
