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Old Victoria Custom House

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Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Old Victoria Custom House
Address:
1002 Wharf St, Victoria, BC V8W 1T4, Canada

The Old Victoria Custom House or Malahat Building, in Victoria was completed about 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 . Its modest design and materials are in keeping with the relative size of Victoria at that time.
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