In 1782, John Adams was appointed America's first Minister Plenipotentiary to Holland.

These loans from the United Provinces, which have been called "the Marshall Plan in reverse," were the first the new government received.

[2] The current American Embassy building in The Hague opened on January 29, 2018.

[3] Notable Americans such as former Presidents Adams and John Quincy Adams, General Hugh Ewing and Iraq Envoy L. Paul Bremer have held the title of Ambassador.

Besides the embassy, a U.S. consulate-general is located on Curaçao which is responsible for the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean.