Hotel Cortez (El Paso, Texas)
Historic building in El Paso, Texas, US From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hotel Cortez is a historic eleven-story building in El Paso, Texas.
Hotel Cortez | |
 The Hotel Cortez in 2014 | |
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| Location | 300 North Mesa Street, El Paso, Texas |
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| Coordinates | 31°45′35″N 106°29′14″W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1926 |
| Architect | Trost & Trost |
| Architectural style | Renaissance, Spanish Colonial Revival |
| MPS | Commercial Structures of El Paso by Henry C. Trost TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 80004105[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 24, 1980 |
The Hotel Orndorff was built in 1926 for Alzina Orndorff DeGroff. It was designed by Trost & Trost.[2][3] It cost $1.4 million to build. Mrs. DeGroff unexpectedly died one month before its completion.[4] It was purchased by the Hussmann Hotel Company in 1933 and renamed first the Hotel Hussmann and then the Hotel Cortez in 1935.[2] President John F. Kennedy stayed overnight on June 5, 1963. The hotel closed in 1970 and became the El Paso Job Corps Center, by lease with the Department of Labor.[4] The structure was fully converted to an office building in 1984.[2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since September 24, 1980.[1]
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