Bruntinell Apartment
El Paso, Texas

Description: Brutinell Apartments
Other Names:
Address: northeast corner of North Oregon Street and Missouri Avenue, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas
Type: domestic: apartment building
Original Client:
Date: ca. 1915
Condition: not built

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: five story building with entrances on both Oregon Street and Missouri Avenue
Budget/Cost:

Foundation:
Wall Materials: finish: probably stucco and wood battens, above a first story of brick (or brick over concrete)
Roofing Materials:
Other Materials Used:
Remodeling and Additions:

Location of Drawings: El Paso Public Library: Ponsford 529, photograph of rendering of perspective view (the rendering is extant and is privately owned); El Paso Public Library: (L-71) blueprint, one sheet, ground floor plan
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Remarks: The Brutinell is one of six Tudor style apartment or hotel buildings designed by Trost & Trost. The others were planned for Nogales, Arizona; Prescott, Arizona; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Silver City, New Mexico; and El Paso (Sunset Heights). None of these projects was built.

The Masonic Temple of 1912 can be seen to the left in the rendering. The streets are indicated by name in the ground floor plan, as are spaces for four retail stores, cigar and news stand, lobby, and office space.

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