Old Victoria Custom House
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| Old Victoria Custom House | |
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| File:Old Victoria Custom House, Victoria, Canada 11.jpg Old Victoria Custom House in 2012 | |
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| General information | |
| Town or city | Victoria |
| Country | Canada |
| Coordinates | 48°25′28″N 123°22′14″W / 48.424359°N 123.3704865°W |
| Opened | 1875 |
| Height | |
| Architectural | Second Empire |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 3 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Thomas Seaton Scott |
| Designations | Historic building |
The Old Victoria Custom House or Malahat Building, in Victoria was completed in 1875 and designated as a historic building in 1987. It is a three-storey, mansard-roofed, custom house overlooking Victoria's harbour, symbolic of the time when Victoria was the pre-eminent commercial centre on Canada's West Coast. The building is described by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada as a "relatively plain example of the imposing Second Empire style adopted for these buildings under Thomas Seaton Scott, first Chief Architect of the Department of Public Works (1872-1881). Its modest design and materials are in keeping with the relative size of Victoria at that time."[1]
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- ↑ Malahat Building / Old Victoria Custom House. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
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