Flournoy Apartment
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Description: Flournoy Apartments
Other Names: none
Address: Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Type: domestic: apartment building
Original Client: Mrs. M. W. Flournoy
Date: 1916
Condition: not built

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: two stories
Budget/Cost:

Foundation: stone with concrete footing
Wall Materials: brick, wood battens and stucco
Roofing Materials: shingle and composition
Other Materials Used:

Location of Drawings: El Paso Public Library: (H-6) 12 sheets ink on linen plans, including side, front and rear elevations, dated August 10 and August 29,1916

Bibliography: El Paso Herald, January 27, 1917 page 28

Remarks: (1) Commission 2392
(2) Matthew W. Flournoy was vice president of the First National Bank, and president of the First Savings Bank & Trust Co., and of Occidental Life and Occidental Fire Insurance Company. He died around 1915-1916; Mrs. Flournoy was apparently looking for an investment for her inheritance.
(3) The Flournoy Apartments is one of six Tudor style apartment or hotel buildings designed by Trost & Trost. The others were planned for Nogales, Arizona; Prescott, Arizona, Silver City, New Mexico; and two in El Paso,Texas. None of these projects was built.

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.