Lamond-Riggs Library History The Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood
Library opened Oct. 24, 1983, after nearly 20 years of planning,
on the north side of South Dakota Avenue between Jefferson and
Kennedy streets NE. Situated in the northernmost section of
Northeast, the branch was intended to supplement the services of
the outgrown Takoma Park Neighborhood Library (built in 1911)
and to extend library services to a broader community in
Northeast. The Lamond-Riggs Library, a $2 million facility, was
built with funds provided in the Public Library's Capital
Improvements budget. The two-story, 19,000-square-foot brick
building was the first of two D.C. library buildings designed by
architectural firm Bryant and Bryant and built by A.A. Beiro
Construction Company. Tireless community rewarded In 1957, the
Citizens' Association of Chillum, a far-north Washington
community bounded roughly by Eastern Avenue, Gallatin Street,
and the railroad right-of-way, submitted a request to for a
neighborhood library in their area. The Fr