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 was on ...

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.

History

Built in 1929, the former beauty salon is an example of

Georgian Revival architecture *Colonial Revival architecture in the United States — ''primarily reviving the British Colonial period style''. ::*''See also: Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in the United States, and Dutch Colonial Revival architecture in the United Sta ...

, 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 United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 2003. It was renovated for the Tiny Jewel Box store, in 1996.

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* * {{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.