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A museum of American Maritime History and still home to the oldest continuously operating U. S. Custom House in the country. Museum operated by the New London Maritime Society. Robert Mills, the first Federal architect, designed the building. The New London City Council at the time set this goal for the architect: "The new Custom House would be New London's ornament on the waterfront." It is a classic Greek Revivial granite building. It was to this building that the slave ship, the Amistad, was first brought and it was here that the first steps were taken to free the slaves who had taken over that ship. and by appointment |
