Hotel Paso del Norte
Hotel Paso del Norte | |
 Hotel Paso del Norte, 2019 | |
  Hotel Paso del Norte  Hotel Paso del Norte | |
| Location | 10 Sheldon Court El Paso, Texas |
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| Coordinates | 31°53′20″N 106°34′15″W / 31.88889°N 106.57083°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1912 |
| Built by | J.E. Lewis |
| Architect | Trost & Trost |
| Architectural style | Chicago, Beaux Arts |
| MPS | Commercial Structures of El Paso by Henry C. Trost TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 79002933 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 5, 1979 |
Hotel Paso del Norte is a historic 351-room luxury 4 1/2 star hotel. It is located in El Paso, Texas, less than one mile north of the international border with Mexico. The hotel originally opened on Thanksgiving Day 1912, and was designed by Trost & Trost. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1979. It is currently undergoing a complete and total renovation, and is scheduled to reopen its doors as part of Marriott's Autograph Collection in 2020.
A wealthy El Paso businessman, Zack T. White, financed initial construction of the hotel. After witnessing a fire destroy another hotel in El Paso, White and architect Henry Charles Trost traveled to San Francisco, California to try to understand how some buildings there survived the earthquake and fire in 1906. The hotel cost $1.5 million to build in order to make it one of the sturdiest structures in El Paso and the most ornate. The large hotel lobby features a stained glass dome over forty-five feet in diameter designed in the Tiffany glass style.[2]
During the 1914 Mexican Revolution, it was popular to watch firefights between the revolutionaries and the Mexican Army from the terraces on the roof of the hotel. Some of the most notable people who have stayed at the hotel over its 100+ year history include U.S. Presidents G.H.W. Bush, G.W. Bush, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Other notables include Gloria Swanson, General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, Pancho Villa, Will Rogers, Enrico Caruso, Amelia Earhart, Sandra Day O’Connor, Gregory Peck, Harrison Ford, Colin Powell, Charles Lindbergh, Clark Gable, John Wayne, Jack Dempsey, U2, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Peter Frampton, The Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Dallas Cowboys, Golden State Warriors, George Strait, Kenny Rogers, Gloria Estefan, and a host of other well known actors, musicians, celebrities and government officials.
The hotel was sold several times during the 20th century. In 1986, a 17-story addition was constructed on the north side of the hotel. The Mexican hotel group Camino Real Hotels, who operated it as The Camino Real for 30 years, sold the building to The Meyers Group in October 2016.
The Meyers Group is currently renovating the historically renamed Hotel Paso Del Norte with local El Paso development partner Two Sabes LLC.[3]
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Paso Del Norte, El Paso, Texas (postcard, c. 1913) -
Main Dining Room, Hotel Paso Del Norte (postcard, c. 1913) -
Main Lobby and Office, Hotel Paso Del Norte, El Paso, Texas (postcard, c. 1913) -
Hotel Paso del Norte, circa 1970s
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Hotel Paso del Norte, Photo: “Tiffany Stained Glass Dome”
- ^ https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/money/business/2018/10/16/downtown-el-paso-hotel-del-norte-project-halted-contractor-search/1651276002/
External links
- Hotels in Texas
- Buildings and structures in El Paso, Texas
- Commercial buildings completed in 1912
- National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Texas
- 1912 establishments in Texas
- Trost & Trost buildings
- Beaux-Arts architecture in Texas
- Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
- Skyscrapers in El Paso, Texas
- Skyscraper hotels in Texas
- Chicago school architecture in Texas