Customs House - Sydney's historic landmark, located on the waterfront Sёrkular Key. Built in the years 1844-1845, it was the main administrative building of the Customs Office until 1990. It then passed into the possession of the City of Sydney Council and used for exhibitions and private events. After a thorough renovation in 2003, it also housed the City Library in Sydney.

In the basement of the building is the layout of the central business district of Sydney of 4, 2 x 9, 5 meters, on which you can see from above through the glass floor. The model, which weighs one ton, was built in 1998. Here you can see pictures and photographs of the building, which were created throughout its history.

It is said that at this point the natives of the tribe Eora watched the arrival of the first fleet in the Sydney Harbour in 1788. Here in 1790 was hanged inmate David O'Connor, and his spirit, according to legend, still roams the customs building, offering a glass of rum over the counter.

The initiator of the building of sandstone on the waterfront Sёrkular Ki Colonel John Nateniel Gibbs, head of customs for a record 25 years - from 1834 to 1859 years. He persuaded the governor of the colony of New South Wales GIPPS George, referring to the growing turnover of maritime trade in Sydney. A two-storey house in Georgian style was designed by Mortimer Lewis. Its highlight were 13 huge windows on the facade, which provide panoramic views of Sydney Harbour and the ships passing through it. Colonel Sam Gibbs, who lived in the house opposite, could oversee the construction of the customs building, sitting on the veranda of their homestead Votonga (now the Admiralty building).

In 1887, the building was partially demolished and raised to three floors by architect James Barnet. Over the next century to his finish building the different elements, particularly active in the First World War, however, the basic details of the customs building remained intact.