Riggs National Bank
- Architects
- York and Sawyer Appleton P. Clark, Jr.
- Year
- 1902
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- the city beautiful
Riggs National Bank's headquarters at 1503-1505 Pennsylvania Avenue NW was designed by York and Sawyer in 1899 and completed in 1902 in the Classical Revival style, giving the bank a monumental presence on Washington's financial row. A western office wing by Appleton P. Clark Jr. was added between 1922 and 1924.
the style
The Neoclassical exterior so closely matches the firm's later American Security and Trust Company building next door that the two are sometimes considered a single design.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
York and Sawyer specialized in Neoclassical bank architecture nationally; Appleton P. Clark Jr., a prolific local Washington architect, later added the western wing.
significance
Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the building is also a contributing property to both the Fifteenth Street Financial Historic District and the Lafayette Square Historic District, and is a designated DC Historic Landmark.
nearby
- American Security and Trust Company
- Freedman's Bank Building
- W. B. Hibbs and Company Building
- National Metropolitan Bank
- Bond Building
- Commercial National Bank