Hotel Cortez (El Paso, Texas)

Hotel Cortez
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Hotel Cortez in 2014
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Location	300 North Mesa Street, El Paso, Texas
Coordinates	31°45′35″N106°29′14″W / 31.75972°N 106.48722°W / 31.75972; -106.48722 (Hotel Cortez)
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 Cortez is a historic eleven-story building in El Paso, Texas.

History

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]

Historical marker.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. "Hotel Cortez". Henry C. Trost Historical Organization. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
3. Carmack, Liz (2007). Historic Hotels of Texas: A Traveler's Guide. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press. p. 239. ISBN   9781585446087. OCLC   80360835.
4. "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Hotel Cortez" (PDF). Texas Historical Commission. Retrieved July 6, 2019. This is an "individual data sheet" excerpted from Thematic Resources NRHP document "Commercial Structures of El Paso by Henry C. Trost". Includes four photos from 1979 and 1980.