Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — Cost of Government Buildings. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Government Buildings.

The cost of the principal Government buildings in Washington has been as follows: Treasury Department building, $7,158,354; ’ National Museum, $200,000; Postoffice Department, $2,151,500; Printing Office, $296,000; Marine Barracks, $339,630; Naval Hospital, $116,035; State, War, and Navy building, $7,628,925; Agricultural Department, $501,825; Smithsonian Institution, $492,531; National Monument, $1,100,000; Naval Observatory, $255,264; Patent Office, $3,245,775; United States Capitol, about $16,000,000. The Court House cost $275,152, the money for which was raised’ by a lottery, which was drawn in Alexandria, Va. The princely prize was SIO,OOO, and, though it was a semiGovernment affair, it was never paid the holder of the lucky ticket.