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The Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library in the Queens Chapel neighborhood of 
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It is located at 5401 South Dakota Avenue NE. Residents had requested a library for the area as early as 1957; the current building opened in 1983 at a cost of $2 million.
In the late 2010s, the city approved a $20 million project to rebuild the library, designed by Hammel, Green and Abrahamson
Hammel, Green and Abrahamson (HGA) is an architecture, engineering, and planning firm that originated in Minnesota. It was founded in 1953 by Minnesotans Dick Hammel and Curt Green (Bruce Abrahamson joined in shortly thereafter).
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. Razing of the building began on January 4, 2021, and the library reopened on June 27, 2022.
The library was renamed the Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Library in 2022 to honor the legacy of activist and organizer Lillian J. Huff.
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