The Elefant House, Art Nouveau monument in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

The Elefant House is a three-storey row building at Stará louka 343/30, nine window axes wide, with a mansard attic added in 1913–1914. The ground floor is clad in polished grey granite, the first floor has plain rectangular windows and shallow pilasters, and a lit ELEFANT sign sits above the three central windows. A gilded elephant sculpture stands on a brick pedestal at the second-floor balcony.

Two houses on the site, Goldener Elephant and Goldener Phasan, burned down on 23 May 1759; a stone-and-brick replacement was built the next year and already lodged spa guests. Friedrich Meissner had a larger late-classical house with Italian Neo-Renaissance elements built in 1874–1876 to Josef Benischek's design, with a gilded elephant on a console above the first floor. The heirs Karl and Friedrich Meissner had it rebuilt in Art Nouveau form in 1913–1914 to plans by Heinrich Johann Vieth, adding a mansard storey.

The gilded elephant on the second-floor balcony has marked the house for centuries; the name Goldener Elephant was already used for the predecessor building destroyed in the fire of 23 May 1759. From 1876 the ground floor held the café and confectioner's Elefant, frequented by František Palacký, Karel Havlíček Borovský and Prince Kamil Rohan, who lodged in the hotel. In 2014 part of the café became a clothing shop.

The building stands in central Karlovy Vary and can be easily reached on foot. It is within walking distance of the thermal springs and main pedestrian areas of the city.

The gilded elephant on the second-floor balcony is not the original: the 1874–1876 building by Josef Benischek had a gilded elephant on a console above the first floor. The entrance hall received a cladding of straw tiles in 1920, when Ludwig Stainl reworked the ground floor in polished grey granite.