Description: WASHINGTON, D. C. - The Hotel Raleigh - ADVERTISING: 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 Shepherd Centennial Building was a seven-story office building in the Second Empire style that opened in 1876. The upper floors were rented by the Pension Office until 1885, as they apparently had to use multiple private office buildings until their new Pension Bureau building was ready. 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. Dessez. 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. Congress changed the height limit for buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue NW from 130 feet (40 m) to 160 feet (49 m) in 1910 in order to accommodate the Raleigh Hotel. In 1936, there was a major interior renovation. Curt Schliffeler managed the hotel from 1936 to 1954. In 1964, the Raleigh was demolished. The site is now occupied by 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, an office building. This pre-zip code (before 1963 Photochromatic postcard is in good condition. Thompson-Ellis-Hutton Co. Baltimore 2, Md.
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Location: Brooklyn, New York
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Unit of Sale: Single Unit
Size: Standard (5.5x3.5 in)
Material: Paper
City: WASHINGTON, D. C.
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Brand/Publisher: Thompson-Ellis-Hutton Co.
Subject: The Hotel Raleigh
Continent: North America
Type: Printed (Lithograph)
Era: Photochrome (1939-Now)
Theme: Advertising, Architecture, Beaux Arts, Cities & Towns, Hotel & Restaurant, Landscapes, Shepherd Centennial Building
Country: United States
Region: District of Columbia
Features: Panoramic
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Postage Condition: Unposted
