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Though construction began in 1848, the New Orleans customhouse was still a building-in-progress when the U.S. Customs Service moved into the first floor in 1856. Confederate forces, and later the Union Army, occupied the unfinished structure during the Civil War. Construction resumed in 1871. Damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the customhouse was renovated and reopened in 2011. (CBP History reference collections)
