1242-1245 Washington Blvd.

The Washington Boulevard Historic District is significant as an intact streetscape of architecturally distinguished commercial buildings dating from 1901-1930 with a majority built in the 1920s. The buildings individually represent some of the finest early Twentieth Century architecture in Detroit and as a group illustrate the evolution of the commercial style in Detroit as it was practiced by some of Michigan's master architects. The district is also significant as a product of a planned real estate development inspired by the City Beautiful movement and carried out as the private artistic endeavor of one family and their architect, Louis Kamper.

The building at 1242-54 Washington Boulevard of concrete construction dating from the 1920s is a row of shops surmounted by large Chicago style windows on the second floor and ornamented with Corinthian pilasters.