1920s
- Featured Architecture:
- ABOUT MOTT SCHMIDT
- Introduction
- Beginnings and Sutton Place
- Townhouses and Apartments
- Country Houses
- Late Works
- Townhouses
- Sutton Place
- Anne Morgan Townhouse
- Mrs W.K. Vanderbilt Townhouse
- Guy Fairfax Cary Townhouse
- Miss Emily Trevor Townhouse
- Vincent Astor Townhouse
- Walter E. Hope Townhouse
- Apartment Houses
- 53 East 66th Street
- 1088 Park Avenue
- 19 East 72nd Street
- Country Houses
- Mr & Mrs Clarence Dillon Summer House
- Pook's Hill: Mr & Mrs Mott B. Schmidt Country House
- Marienruh: Mrs Serge Obolensky Country House
- Mr & Mrs Bernard Peyton Country House
- C. Douglas Dillon Country House
- Hudson Pines: Mrs David M. Milton Abby Rockefeller Country House
- Hillcrest: Mrs Martha Baird Rockefeller Country House
- Municipal Buildings
- Municipal Building and Post Office, Mount Kisco
- Susan B. Wagner Wing, Gracie Mansion
- Other Buildings
- French City Village Houses
- Selected Commissions for the Rockefeller Family
Elizabeth Arden Store Alterations
New York, New York
1929
New York, New York
1929
In August 1929 the Aeolian building acquired its most important tenant (other than, of course, Aeolian. Women’s cosmetics and beauty firm Elizabeth Arden took over five upper floors as well as a portion of the ground floor. Founded by Florence Nightingale Graham (who took the name Elizabeth Arden) the company was an early example of a tremendously successful endeavor conceived of, developed and run by a woman. To clearly identify the Elizabeth Arden entrance from that of Aeolian, architect Mott B. Schmidt designed an incongruous modern entrance framed in polished black stone at the northern end of the Fifth Avenue façade.
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