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Proposed Hotel
Big Spring, Texas

 

Description: Proposed Hotel
Other Names: none
Address: Big Spring, Howard County, Texas
Type: hotel
Original Client:
Historic Inventory:
Date: 1920s
Condition: not built

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: a 5-storey block
Budget/Cost:

Foundation: unknown, probably concrete
Wall Materials: brick
Roofing Materials: flat
Other Materials Used: terra cotta ornament

Location of Drawings: El Paso Public Library: Ponsford 538, photograph of rendering of perspective view

Bibliography:

Remarks: The hotel is nearly square, probably with a light well, and has richly ornamented corners. It is not a study for the Crawford Hotel, New Mexico.

Prepared for the El Paso Public Library by Lloyd C. and June F. Engelbrecht under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990