El Paisano Hotel - Marfa, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 30° 18.743 W 104° 01.302
13R E 594060 N 3353806
Mission/Spanish Revival hotel designed by Architect Firm of Trost & Trost in 1928.
Waymark Code: WMZAY5
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/11/2018
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Texas Historic Site Atlas
The Hotel is a "U" plan open to the south with a five arch, one story concrete screen connecting the legs of the "U" plan thereby giving the appearance of two large advance bays or quadrants. By enclosing the "U" plan, a fifty by fifty foot courtyard is created "inside" containing the main entrance on axis.
The El Paisano Hotel originally contained seventy-two rooms on the first and second stories. The significant public rooms radiating around the interior courtyard on the first floor are: the lobby, lounge, public dining room, ball room, and coffee shcp. All are exemplary exercises in a quasi Spanish/Southwest style of decoration.
The El Paisano Hotel has long played a significant role in the historic fabric of the City of Marfa, Texas. Its location within a block of the architecturally outstanding Presidio County Courthouse has made the hotel a pivotal point in the social and cannercial life of Marfa and the larger County of Presidio.