{"nrhp_refnum":"79002933","name":"Hotel Paso del Norte","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"115 El Paso St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"El Paso","county":"El Paso County","state":"TX","lat":31.888913828000057,"lon":-106.57141247599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-01-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ten-story, 200-room hotel at 115 S. El Paso Street in El Paso, Texas, designed by Trost and Trost and built for Zach T. White. It was constructed between 1910 and 1912 and opened on November 28, 1912.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of the most elegant hotels in the Trans-Pecos region and a good example of Henry Trost's blend of Chicago School and Beaux Arts ideas in a reinforced concrete and brick high-rise. It also stands on a site important to early El Paso, is tied to pioneer Zach T. White, and has a Tiffany-designed stained glass dome in its lobby. It served as a social center and hosted many prominent guests.","narrative":"Rising ten stories over a full city block in downtown El Paso, this hotel was built between 1910 and 1912 for pioneer businessman Zach T. White and opened on November 28, 1912. Henry Trost's firm, Trost and Trost, designed it with a steel and concrete frame, gypsum partitions from White Sands, New Mexico, and red brick walls with white terra cotta trim. White and his engineer studied buildings that survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire before settling on the design. The exterior shows Chicago School influence with Beaux Arts details, while the lobby, made by Italian artisans, features scagliola, serpentine marble, European chandeliers and a Tiffany-designed stained glass dome. The site once held Ben Dowell's saloon, store and post office. Over the years the hotel hosted figures such as General Pershing and Eleanor Roosevelt, and in 1968 it was the setting for a luncheon finalizing the Chamizal Treaty settlement. Interior changes were small, and the lobby remains largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1900- (opened Nov. 28, 1912)","architect_builder":"J. E. Lewis-construction engineer; Trost & Trost, El Paso, Texas","architectural_style":"Chicago School/Beaux Arts influence (Sullivanesque division into base, shaft and cornice)","criteria":[],"status_note":"The 1978 form lists the hotel as occupied and in excellent condition, with minimal interior alterations and a full renovation planned. A later 1980 data sheet gives its present use as vacant.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.576747-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/9688/40968896/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/79002933.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002933/79e6bf1f04-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002933/79e6bf1f04-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Paso_del_Norte,_El_Paso,_Texas.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Paso_del_Norte,_El_Paso,_Texas.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968896","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Paso_del_Norte","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5911829"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/el-paso-county/hotel-paso-del-norte-79002933/"}