Hotel Luhrs Remodeling
Phoenix, Arizona
Description: Commercial Hotel remodeling
Other Names: Hotel Luhrs
Address: Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
Type: hotel
Original Client: George H. N. Luhrs, Sr.
Date: 1924
Condition: demolished
Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation:
Budget/Cost:
Foundation:
Wall Materials: plastered
Roofing Materials: flat
Other Materials Used:
Remodeling and Additions:
Present Owner:
Location of Drawings: Luhrs Family collection: two drawings, watercolor over pencil, two different proposals
Location of Documentary Photographs:
Bibliography: Charles Hall Page & Associates, Inc., San Francisco, with Historical Research by Robert R. Frankeberger, Phoenix Historic Building Survey (Phoenix: City Planning Department, 1979), page 45 illustrated. In 1924 the firm of Trost & Trost designed a new front facade.
Remarks: Trost & Trost enclosed porches and restyled the arcade, but retained the cornice.
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.