Arnold Residence
El Paso, Texas

Description: Arnold Residence
Other Names:
Address: 1418 Hawthorne Street, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas
Type: domestic: single family home
Original Client: Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Arnold
Historic Inventory: in Sunset Heights Historic District; on El Paso Register of Historic Places
Date: 1911
Condition: extant; in use as a home

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors: Ray Ward and Sons
Dimensions and Orientation: two stories Foursquare, 30 feet square; faces northwest
Budget/Cost:

Foundation: stone
Wall Materials: red brick
Roofing Materials: shingles (new)
Other Materials Used: cement lintels; wood window frames
Remodeling and Additions: sleeping porches converted to sun room; downstairs coat closet converted to powder room

Present Owner: privately owned
Location of Drawings: none known to exist
Location of Documentary Photographs: authors

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Remarks: This house is attributed to Henry C. Trost on the basis of style, and because it is in an area where Trost built many homes of this character. The interior is spacious with wide halls. The living room is beamed; there are glass front bookcases on either side of the brick fireplace. There is cased pass-through to the dining room. The dining room wainscot is half-timber with plaster fill, topped by a plate rail. The ceiling is cross-beamed and there is a window seat. The second floor has four bedrooms and a bath, and has been somewhat modernized.

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