Trost & Trost

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Henry Charles Trost
Personal information
Name Henry Charles Trost
Nationality American
Birth date March 5, 1860(1860-03-05)
Birth place Toledo, Ohio
Date of death September 19, 1933 (aged 73)
Place of death El Paso, Texas
Work
Significant buildings O. T. Bassett Tower

Plaza Hotel
The Paso Del Norte Hotel
Turney Home


Trost & Trost Architects & Engineers was an architecture firm based in El Paso, Texas. The firm's Chief designer was Henry C. Trost, who was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1860 and moved to El Paso in 1903. The other partner in Trost & Trost was Henry's brother Gustavus Adolphus Trost, handled the business side of the enterprise and did some design work of his own. Adolphus Gustavus Trost was Gustavus twin brother and in 1908 he joined the firm as a Structural Engineer. Between 1903 and Henry Trost's death on September 19, 1933, the firm designed hundreds of buildings in the El Paso area and in other Southwestern cities including Albuquerque, Phoenix, and Tucson.

Throughout his career Henry Trost demonstrated his ability to work in a variety of styles, including Art Deco, Mission Revival, Prairie, and even Pueblo Revival. Many of the buildings designed by Trost & Trost display an influence from the Chicago School of architecture, especially the work of Louis Sullivan. Henry Trost had lived in Chicago between 1888 and 1896, and it is possible that he worked for the firm of Adler & Sullivan during that period.

[edit] Notable Buildings

All buildings are located in El Paso unless otherwise noted.

Main article: List of Trost & Trost works

[edit] References

  • Edgell, G.H., The American Architecture of Today Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1929
  • Guide to the Architecture of Phoenix, Central Chapter of the American Institute of Architects 1983
  • Information gathered by Lloyd C. & June F. Engelbrecht under a grant from the National Endowment for the humanities for the El Paso Public Library, 1990.

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