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2. Hotel Paso del Norte - Wikipedia

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   79002933 [1] Added to NRHP. January 5, 1979. Hotel Paso del Norte is a historic 351-room hotel. It is located in El Paso, Texas, less than one mile north of the international border with Mexico. The hotel originally opened on Thanksgiving Day 1912, and was designed by Trost & Trost. The building was added to the National Register of Historic ...

3. Plaza Hotel (El Paso, Texas) - Wikipedia

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   At 239 feet (73 m) it surpassed the O. T. Bassett Tower to become the tallest building in El Paso; it is still the city's fifth tallest building. Designed by Trost & Trost , the hotel is an Art Deco styled 19-story reinforced cast-in-place concrete structure with setbacks at the 16th and 17th floors.

4. Hotel Cortez (El Paso, Texas) - Wikipedia

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   U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The Hotel Cortez in 2014. Show map of Texas Show map of the United States Show all. Location. 300 North Mesa Street, El Paso, Texas. Coordinates. 31°45′35″N 106°29′14″W  /  31.75972°N 106.48722°W  / 31.75972; -106.48722  (Hotel Cortez) Area. less than one acre.

5. San Jacinto Plaza - Wikipedia

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   The Plaza, El Paso, Texas (postcard, circa 1902) J. Fisher Satterwaite , El Paso Parks and Streets Commissioner, contracted with Fisher Satterthwaite to create beauty out of this desert patch. By 1883, the park was surrounded by a fence, a walled pond was created, a gazebo was erected and 75 Chinese Elm trees were planted.

6. Magic Landing - Wikipedia

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   Magic Landing. Magic Landing was a theme park located in El Paso, Texas, operating from 1984 to 1988. Magic Landing was one of two amusement parks operating in El Paso during the 1980s, the other being Western Playland. Magic Landing opened to the public on July 4, 1984. It included the Old Galveston Railway, a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge [1 ...

7. History of El Paso, Texas - Wikipedia

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   Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico, was the first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.