Raleigh Hotel (built as Shepherd Centennial Building) was a historic high-rise office and then hotel building in downtown Washington, D.C., United States.
It stood on the northeast corner of 12th Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue.
The site, on the northeast corner of 12th Street N.W., and Pennsylvania Avenue, was originally occupied by the Fountain Inn, erected in 1815[1] after the burning of Washington.
The ground floor on the Pennsylvania Avenue side was rented by the Palais Royal department store from 1877 until 1893, when the building was converted into the Raleigh Hotel under architect Leon E.
[2] In 1911, the building was razed and rebuilt by architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh as a 13-story Beaux Arts hotel with a rusticated brick, white limestone, and terra cotta exterior.