Hotel Rouault
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Description: Hotel Rouault
Other Names: Herndon Hotel
Address: Main Street and Griggs Las Cruces, Dona Ana County, New Mexico
Type: hotel
Original Client: Theodore Rouault
Historic Inventory:
Date: 1911-1913
Condition: demolished – 1971

Architect or Firm: Henry Trost
Associated Architect or Firm: Trost & Trost
Contractors:
Dimensions and Orientation: four story building; first floor will be taken up by a large court, a rotunda and business rooms around the outside
Budget/Cost:

Foundation:
Wall Materials: Yellow Brick (similar to material used in the Y.M.C.A. building in El Paso)
Roofing Materials:
Other Materials Used:
Remodeling and Additions:

Present Owner:
Location of Drawings:
Location of Documentary Photographs: El Paso Public Library: Ponsford 552 [not in Ponsford file May 4, 1988]
In 1908 a water color sketch was on exhibition in the chamber of commerce rooms

Bibliography: El Paso Herald, May 1, 1908 page 3

Remarks: El Paso Herald May 1, 1908. The building will be on Main Street, will be four stories height according to the blue prints and will be constructed of the first quality yellow brick. The first floor will be taken up by a large court, a rotunda and business rooms around the outside. The remaining of the building will be used for a hotel. The building first floor was occupied by the First State Bank (short time) Pullman Cafe, the Myers Hardware Company and Livingston Dollar Store

In 1920s, R.B. Herndon and his wife changed the upstairs apartments and offices into a hotel. In November 1929 a fire on the first floor  forced on the second floor residences to escape the building.

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