Riggs National Bank, from the southwest, forecourt to the Treasury Department, 1973

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Riggs National Bank, from the southwest, forecourt to the Treasury Department, 1973

Photo Credit: Wm Edmund Barrett, NCPC

This file appears in: Riggs National Bank

Prominently situated opposite the U.S. Treasury, the Riggs National Bank's Classical Revival style had a great influence on the design of other city banks.Established in 1840 as Corcoran & Riggs by William W. Corcoran (a former official of the…