File:Scalemshouse, Christiansted Wharf Square vicinity, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI HABS VI,1-CHRIS,2- (sheet 2 of 11).tif

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HABS VI,1-CHRIS,2- (sheet 2 of 11) - Scalemshouse, Christiansted Wharf Square vicinity, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI
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HABS VI,1-CHRIS,2- (sheet 2 of 11) - Scalemshouse, Christiansted Wharf Square vicinity, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI
Description
Schellerup, Ludvig; Lark, Martin; Thomas, B; Branegan, W; Iversen, Royal Blacksmith; Rogers, Andrei, delineator; Macioge, Frank A, delineator; Henle, Fritz, photographer; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Overby, Osmund R, historian; Gjessing, Frederik C, historian
Depicted place Virgin Islands (US); St. Croix; Christiansted
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 19 x 24 in. (B size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS VI,1-CHRIS,2- (sheet 2 of 11)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Christiansted was an important trading center in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the scalehouse was a central feature in the wharf area. The building is typical of the 19th-century architecture in the Danish West Indies.

Designed and constructed by building inspector Giellerup in 1856 to replace older Scale House. The Custom House has bearing masonry first floor, wood frame second floor and hipped roof. Typical of the island architecture are the heavy lime stuccoed yellow brick walls and the wood braced frame and exposed roof trusses. All openings are spanned in brick. The keystones and quoins, formed in brick, are accentuated by stucco. The concrete shed and metal roof are twentieth century additions.

  • Survey number: HABS VI-3
  • Building/structure dates: 1855- 1856 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1861 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1888- ca. 1889 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1897 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/vi0063.sheet.00002a
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