Trost & Trost Architects & Engineers, often known as Trost & Trost, was an architectural firm based in El Paso, Texas. The firm's chief designer was Henry Charles Trost, who was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1860. Trost moved from Chicago to Tucson, Arizona in 1899 and to El Paso in 1903. He partnered with Robert Rust to form Trost & Rust. Rust died in 1905 and later that year Trost formed the firm of Trost & Trost with his twin brother Gustavus Adolphus Trost, also an architect, who had joined the firm as a structural engineer. Between 1903 and Henry Trost's death on September 19, 1933, the firm designed hundreds of buildings in the El Paso area and in other Southwestern cities, including Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, and San Angelo.

Throughout his career, Henry Trost demonstrated his ability to work in a variety of styles, including Art Deco, Mission Revival, Prairie, Pueblo Revival, and Bhutanese Dzong architecture, at the University of Texas at El Paso. Many of the buildings designed by Trost & Trost display an influence from the Chicago School of architecture. Henry Trost had lived in Chicago between 1888 and 1896. In 1889, Henry started the American Art Metal Work Company with Emil Henry Seeman, which lasted about a year.

From 1892 to 1896, Trost served as vice president of Chicago Ornamental Iron Company. The company is associated with metal ornament that formed the front railings of the boxes and balconies in the Lafayette Square Opera House in Washington, DC.

Selected buildings

Steinfeld Mansion (Tucson's First Owls Club), 1898 Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost South Hall, 1898, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost (demolished 1958) Schneider-Healy House, 1900–1902, Tucson, Arizona; Henry Trost Gardiner / Ramsey House 1900–1901, 144 E. University Blvd. Tucson, Arizona Trost & Trost Tucson's Second Owls Club, 1902-1903 Tucson, Arizona; Trost & Rust Carnegie Free Library in Tucson, 1900-1901 Arizona; Trost & Trost Willard Hotel (Pueblo Hotel and Apartments), 1902–1904, 145 S.6th Ave. Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost Santa Rita Hotel, 1904, Tucson, Arizona Trost & Rust (demolished 1972) Ronstadt House, 1904, 607 North Sixth Avenue in Tucson, Arizona; Trost & Rust Bayless House, 1905, 145 East University Boulevard Tucson, Arizona; Trost & Rust Tucson Residence (721 E. University Blvd.), 1905, Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost William Ward Turney residence (now the International Museum of Art), 1908, El Paso, Texas Young Men's Christian Association, 1906–1908; El Paso, Texas, Henry C. Trost (demolished in 1961) Manning House 1907 for Levi Manning at 450 W. Paseo Redondo in Tucson designed by Henry Trost

Henry C. Trost residence, 1908, 1013 W. Yandell Dr. El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost

Walter Douglas House, 1908, Bisbee, Arizona; Trost & Trost Goodrich House, 1908, Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost El Paso Country Club, 1908–1909, El Paso, Texas, Henry C. Trost (destroyed by fire in 1916) Caples Building, 1909, El Paso, Texas. Empty in 2015. New Mexico State University campus, 1909, Las Cruces, New Mexico Abdou Building, 1910, at 115 North Mesa Street at Texas Avenue in El Paso, Texas

Anson Mills Building, 1911, El Paso, Texas Kerr Mercantile Building, 1927, Sanderson, Texas; Henry C. Trost Hotel Paso del Norte, 1912, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost Popular Department Store (now 1 Union Fashion Center), 1912, El Paso, Texas White House Department Store (now The Centre), 1912, El Paso, Texas El Paso High School, 1913–1916, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost Scottish Rite Cathedral, 1915; Tucson, Arizona; Trost & Trost El Paso Country Court House, 1915–1916, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost (demolished in 1988) Arizona Eastern & Southern Pacific Railway Passenger Station, Globe, Arizona, 1916 Occidental Life Building, 1917, Albuquerque, New Mexico Old Main Building at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1917, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost Quinn Hall at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1917, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost Graham Hall at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1917, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost Geology Building at the University of Texas at El Paso, 1917 Rosenwald Building, 1920, downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico Kelly Hall at the University of Texas at El Paso- Kelly Hall, 1920–1921, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost First National Bank Building, 1922, Albuquerque, New Mexico Houston High School, 1922, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost State National Building, 1922, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost Hotel Cortez - Hotel Orndorff, 1922, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost Loretto Academy, 1922–1936, El Paso, Texas; Gustavus A. Trost

Luhrs Building, 1924, Phoenix, Arizona; Henry C. Trost Sunshine Building 1924 in Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico El Paso Community College, 1925, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost Hassayampa Inn, 1927, Prescott, Arizona; Trost & Trost Gage Hotel, 1927, Marathon, Texas The Holland Hotel, 1928, Alpine, Texas

San Angelo City Hall & Auditorium, 1929, San Angelo, Texas Gadsden Hotel, 1929, Douglas, Arizona Luhrs Tower, 1929, Phoenix, Arizona; Henry C. Trost Hotel Paisano, 1930, Marfa, Texas - Built by Charles Bassett: Gateway hotel chain Plaza Hotel - Plaza Motor Hotel, New Sheldon Hotel, Hilton Hotel amongst other names, 1929, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost O. T. Bassett Tower, 1930, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost Driskill Hotel, 1930 tower addition, Austin, Texas; Henry C. Trost University of Texas at El Paso- Worrell Hall, 1935–1937, El Paso, Texas; Gustavus A. Trost University of Texas at El Paso- Benedict, 1935–1937, El Paso, Texas; Gustavus A. Trost El Paso Country Club repairs (proposed 1920–1922), 1936, El Paso, Texas; Gustavus A. Trost University of Texas at El Paso- Holliday Hall, 1933, El Paso, Texas; Gustavus A. Trost

References and notes

Edgell, G.H., The American Architecture of Today Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1929 Guide to the Architecture of Phoenix, Central Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. 1983 Information gathered by Lloyd C. & June F. Engelbrecht under a grant from the National Endowment for the humanities for the El Paso Public Library, 1990. The Spirit of H.H. Richardson of the Midwest Prairies, ed. by Larson and Brown, University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA, 1988 A Photographic History of the University of Arizona 1885-1985 Phyllis Ball. Privately Printed. 1986

External links

Henry C. Trost Historical Organization EPCC Borderlands article: "Henry Trost's Architectural Legacy Lives On" Flickr.com: Images of Trost & Trost works Inventory of Trost & Trost Architectural Drawings 1916-1931