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.
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, 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.
See also
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Demonet Building
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Waggaman-Ray Commercial Row
References
External links
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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.