The Hamburg-America Shipping Line Administrative Offices, also known as United States District Courts Building, in Charlotte Amalie in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

It was built for the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt Aktien Gesellschaft and held offices for the Superintendent Counsul and also for the Imperial German Consulate. The German connection was lost when the U.S. purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark just prior to joining World War I against Germany.

Hamburg-America Shipping Line Administrative Offices

It is a two-story reinforced concrete building about in plan, with eight bays on its east and west facades and six on its south facade.

Hamburg-America Shipping Line Administrative Offices

Designed by German architect Fritz Klein, it is one of the United States' earlier examples of Modern architecture.

Hamburg-America Shipping Line Administrative Offices

In 1978 it housed the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, the U.S. Marshal Service, and the U.S. District Court.

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National Register of Historic Places in the United States Virgin Islands

Buildings and structures completed in 1914

Courthouses in the United States

1914 establishments in North America

1910s establishments in the Caribbean

1914 establishments in Denmark

20th-century establishments in the Danish West Indies

Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands