Chase's Theater and Riggs Building, looking southeast along G. St. N.W., March 1978

ID: 741
This file appears in: Riggs Building (Keith-Albee Building)
Chase's Theater and Riggs Building, looking southeast along G. St. N.W., March 1978

Anne H. Helwig, NCPC

This file appears in: Riggs Building (Keith-Albee Building)

Erected in 1912, the Riggs or Albee Building and the adjoining theater were built on a site formerly occupied by the Riggs House, a large hotel demolished in 1911. Originally, the building was known as the Riggs Building, and the adjoining theater…