Texas Store Annex
El Paso, Texas

Description: Texas Store
Other Names:
Address: 306-310 East Overland Street, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas
Type: commercial; retail
Original Client: Max Borschow
Historic Inventory:
Date: 1922
Condition: extant

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: one story building 60×66 feet, directly behind the present Texas Store. The new building contact with old building.
Budget/Cost: first stage: $15,000

Foundation: concrete
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Present Owner:
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Bibliography: (1) El Paso Herald, August 11, 1922 page 7  Borschow buys $25,000 site for annex

Remarks:  The building was going to be directly behind the current store and connect with the present store. The cost of the land was $25,000. Eventually, it is planned, to extend the store on through to Mesa Avenue and have a double entrance, one on East Overland and the other on South Mesa.

Mr. Boschow was also completing the enlargement of the basement and converting it to a mammoth salesroom. Plans also called for the front of the present Texas store to be remodeled and large arcade windows will be put in. The entire store to be redecorated inside and outside.

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