{"nrhp_refnum":"80004110","name":"Plaza Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Oregon and Mills Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"El Paso","county":"El Paso County","state":"TX","lat":31.758576995000055,"lon":-106.48869195999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A fifteen-story brick and concrete hotel tower with a two-story base at Oregon and Mills Streets in El Paso, Texas, built in 1930 to designs by Trost and Trost.","why_significant":"It is significant as one of El Paso's early high-rise structures from the office of Trost and Trost, in an Art Deco style that remains largely unaltered. It was built for Conrad Hilton as the El Paso Hilton, the eighth hotel he opened. Hilton lived there in the 1930s and kept ties to the city.","narrative":"Rising fifteen stories at Oregon and Mills Streets in El Paso, this 1930 hotel was designed by the firm Trost and Trost in the Art Deco style. A two-story trapezoidal base supports a rectangular red brick tower, topped by a smaller three-story block and a green terra cotta tile roof. Light cast concrete bands, fluted vertical elements, geometric spandrels and polychromatic roundels provide contrast and decoration. Exterior changes have been minimal and mostly at street level. The building was constructed for Conrad Hilton as the El Paso Hilton, the eighth hotel he opened. Hilton, born in New Mexico in 1887, went on to found a worldwide hotel chain. City directories show he lived in the hotel during the 1930s, and his mother stayed there until 1947. He visited often until the hotel was sold and renamed in 1963. Its status as an early El Paso high-rise and its link to Hilton underlie its significance.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Trost and Trost","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is stated as the same as the original use, hotel/commercial. Exterior alterations are minimal and mostly at street level.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.96179-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/9688/40968870/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/80004110.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004110/6fb2d0848b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004110/6fb2d0848b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"The original uploader was Camerafiend at English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plaza_Hotel_El_Paso.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">The original uploader was Camerafiend at English Wikipedia.</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plaza_Hotel_El_Paso.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968870","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Hotel_(El_Paso,_Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7203610"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/el-paso-county/plaza-hotel-80004110/"}