Hotel
Pecos, Texas

Description: Hotel
Other Names:
Address: Pecos, Reeves County, Texas
Type: hotel
Original Client: Mr. Joe Goodell (Goddell?), Dues & Company of El Paso
Historic Inventory:
Date: 1920s-1930s
Condition: probably not built

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost or Gustavus A. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
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Present Owner:
Location of Drawings: El Paso Public Library, L-13, 4 plans on tissue.
Location of Documentary Photographs:

Bibliography:(1) El Paso Evening Post, February 13, 1929 page 12
(2) El Paso Evening Times, March 16, 1920 page 14

Remarks: The three hotels in Pecos of this period were the Beacon, the Graham and the Brandon, none of which appear to be Trost & Trost designs.

Dues & Co hotel operators of El Paso, have acquired several attractive hotel sites in Pecos and will at once erect a modern hotel. The plans include a large lobby, mezzanine floor, theater, private dining room, dance floor, barber shop and store space., costing in the neighborhood of $100,000.

In 1929, H.L. Birney and C.N. Bassett drove to Pecos after the opening of La Caverna hotel at Carlsbad, to consider purchasing of the new Graham hotel. Whether or not the purchase is made depends upon a report from Trost & Trost. This would be part of the chain hotel franchise.

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