Brady Residence
El Paso, Texas

Description: Brady residence
Other Names: the first owner was Jonathan Dodge a lawyer 1903
Address: 1409 Montana Avenue, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas
Type: domestic: home
Original Client: James B. Brady, M. D.
Historic Inventory:
Date: 1903
Condition: extant; in use as a home

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: one story with tower
Budget/Cost:

Foundation: stone
Wall Materials: cement with exposed brick panels and quoins. The wall are of wire cut brick and are hollow, the outside is covered with Portland cement and then tinted. The coin corners are of pressed brick
Roofing Materials: originally Spanish tile
Other Materials Used: brick lintels and sills; wood eaves
Remodeling and Additions:

Present Owner: Luis Acuna
Location of Drawings:
Location of Documentary Photographs: El Paso Public Library: Ponsford 172, perspective view

Bibliography: (1)Trost & Trost, Architects (El Paso: Trost & Trost, 1907), page 40, photograph, Ponsford 172
(2) El Paso Herald March 26, 1904 page 6 Elegant Home For Sale

Remarks: This house was original built for Jonathan Dodge a lawyer in 1903. He sold it to James Brady a dentist in 1904. The Dodge family decided to move to California.
The house combines Italianate and Queen Anne features (both somewhat old fashioned for this time) with elements of domestic Mexican architecture. Though eclectic, it is still an engaging building. It is now obscured by a tall stand of trees.

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