Hotel Dieu School of Nursing
El Paso, Texas

Description: Hotel Dieu School of Nursing
Address: 1103 North Kansas Street at Arizona, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas
Type: educational
Original Client: J. F. Morgan, Maurice Schwartz, and Gus Momsen
Date: 1925; opened 1926
Condition: demolished 1971

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: irregular plan, 4 stories, 88 feet x 78 feet,
7 inches; faced southwest
Budget/Cost:
Wall Materials: brick
Roofing Materials: green tile
Other Materials Used: cast stone ornament, window sills and courses; concrete front stairs
Remodeling and Additions:

Location of Drawings: El Paso Public Library: (M-21) 7 ink on linen plans, including side, front and rear elevations, dated September, 1925
Location of Documentary Photographs:

Bibliography: Hotel Dieu Nursing School Observes 55th Anniversary, El Paso Times, February 1, 1953, history and description of the school; photograph of side from Nevada Street.

Remarks: Commission 2639
The building provided classrooms, laboratories, library, recreation space, and living quarters for 60 students.
There were loggias on one side, and an arcaded walkway on the rear ground floor.

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