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The Elizabeth Arden Building is an historic building, located at 1147
Connecticut Avenue Connecticut Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., and suburban Montgomery County, Maryland. It is one of the diagonal avenues radiating from the White House, and the segment south of Florida Avenue wa ...
,
Northwest, Washington, D.C. Northwest (NW or N.W.) is the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street. It is the largest of the four quadrants of the city (NW, NE, S ...
, in
downtown Washington, D.C. Downtown is the central business district of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest (Washington, D.C.), Northwest D.C. It is the third largest central business district in the United States. The "Traditional Downtown" has been defined as an area ...


History

Built in 1929, the former
Elizabeth Arden Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1881 – October 18, 1966), also known as Elizabeth N. Graham, was a Canadian-American businesswoman who founded what is now Elizabeth Arden, Inc., and built a cosmetics empire in the United States. Backg ...
beauty salon is an example of
Georgian Revival architecture Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover, George I, George II, Ge ...
, and the city's only known design of architect Mott B. Schmidt. The Elizabeth Arden Building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2003. It was renovated for the Tiny Jewel Box store in 1996.


See also

* Demonet Building * National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington, D.C. * Waggaman-Ray Commercial Row


References


External links

* * {{Authority control Commercial buildings completed in 1929 Retail buildings in Washington, D.C. Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C. Georgian Revival architecture in Washington, D.C.