ANTIQUE RIGGS HOUSE WASHINGTON DC SOUVENIR STERLING SILVER SPOON B101 for Sale

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ANTIQUE RIGGS HOUSE WASHINGTON DC SOUVENIR STERLING SILVER SPOON B101 For Sale

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ANTIQUE RIGGS HOUSE WASHINGTON DC SOUVENIR STERLING SILVER SPOON B101:
$40.00

ANTIQUE RIGGS HOUSE WASHINGTON DC SOUVENIR SPOON
Marked Sterling with a hallmark. Please see photos for details. Note lighting variations may alter colors of item in photos.
weight: ~11.38g
From the Streets of Washington site:
THE RIGGS HOUSE AT 15TH AND G STREETS NWThe building was originally constructed between 1859 and 1860 by bankerGeorge W. Riggs(1813-1881), with the intention that it be leased as a hotel. However, the first tenant instead was the federal government, which signed a ten-year lease for the building at a cost of $18,000 annually. Beginning in 1861, it served as the first home of the Internal Revenue Bureau, which moved some five years later into the Treasury Department building. The Army Quartermaster General's office occupied the structure for the remainder of the government's lease.___Rates in 1892 were from $3 to $4 per night, on the American plan (meaning meals were included). Staples was a shrewd businessman and made sure that the hotel lived up to expectations for luxury and convenience that guests, then as now, demanded. After his first ten-year lease was up in 1901, Staples again had a thorough renovation undertaken to keep the hotel up-to-date.When Staples' second ten-year lease was up in 1911, it was not renewed, and Staples was forced to vacate. The owners, Riggs' heirs, decided to tear down the old hotel and replace it with a large office building that could bring in greater profits. The new Riggs Building was constructed on the Riggs House site in 1912. Only the facade of that building remains today, sheathing one end of the Metropolitan Square office building, completed in 1986.