Bounded by King, Queen, and Queens Cross Sts. and Christiansted Harbor, Christiansted, Virgin Islands. County/parish: St. Croix.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000077.
6 contributing buildings.Also known as:
Christiansted National Historic Site commemorates urban colonial development of the Virgin Islands. It features 18th- and 19th-century structures in the heart of Christiansted, the capital of the former Danish West Indies on St. Croix Island.
The site consists of six historic structures: Fort Christiansværn (constructed from 1738 to 1749), the Danish West India and Guinea Company Warehouse (1749), the Church of Our Lord Sabaoth Steeple Building (1753), Customs House (built 1840-1842), the Scale House (1856), and Government House (1747). The Danish West India and Guinea Company held slave auctions in its warehouse until 1803, when the slave trade was outlawed.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/131518860