Christiansted National Historic Site

Christiansted preserves the urban colonial core of former Danish West Indies capital on St. Croix, where eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings still shape the waterfront and streets. Laid out on a grid in 1735 and governed by a 1747 building code, the town developed masonry public buildings with a neoclassical character. Six major structures survive, including Fort Christiansværn, Government House, the Danish West India and Guinea Company Warehouse, the Steeple Building, Customs House, and Scale House. Together they reflect Danish colonial administration, trade, religion, architecture, and punishment, while also preserving the histories of slavery, slave auctions, imprisonment, and the islands’ transfer from Denmark to the United States in 1917.

Saint Croix