Cortez Building

Cortez Building

Detail on the outside of the Cortez. The Hotel Cortez is faced in brick and was designed in Spanish Colonial Revival style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 along with other buildings by Henry Charles Trost. Now known as the Cortez Building, it is currently used for offices. It originally opened as Hotel Orndorff in 1926. It became the Hotel Hussmann in 1927, then finally the Hotel Cortez in 1934.

Area: Central / Downtown

Source: Leo Miletich

Uploaded by: El Paso Museum of History

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