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Elks Building
Gallup, New Mexico

Description: Elks Building
Other Names: none
Address: Gallup, McKinley County, New Mexico
Type: fraternal: lodge
Original Client: Fraternal Order of Elks
Date: 1926
Condition: not built

Architect or Firm: Henry C. Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: 2-story block with one-story block to the rear; 50 feet 4 inches across the front x 72 feet 3 inches deep
Budget/Cost:

Foundation: concrete
Wall Materials: brick, plastered
Roofing Materials: composition
Other Materials Used: cement ornament, wood louver vents

Location of Drawings: El Paso Public Library: (O-17) 7 sheets, ink on linen plans, including elevations, Commission 2681, dated September, 1926; (L-45) 2 sheets, blueprints of floor plans; and (L-64) 2 sheets, ink and pencil on tissue, basement and first floor plan, undated, from which blueprints in L-45 were made (additional pencil notes on tissue sheets made after blueprint was printed); (L-64) 5 sheets, ink on pencil, T-shaped building.

Bibliography:

Remarks: The present Elks Club is in a remodeled night club.The old Elks building at 201 West Mesa Avenue was demolished to clear the block for the Court House of 1938.

Commission 2681

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