Marker Inscription
Architecture, Community Planning and Develpment, Engineering
Historic Place
Mills Building
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About this site
Mills Building is a historic place in El Paso, El Paso County, dedicated in 2011. It is one of 27 historic places documented in El Paso County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 140 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.7591, -106.4890 near El Paso. The nearest cataloged historic site is El Camino Real (The King's Highway) (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include White House Department Store and Hotel McCoy, Plaza Hotel, and Pioneer Plaza.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2011000130. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Anson Mills Building at 303 North Oregon Street in downtown El Paso was built in 1910-1911 for pioneer surveyor and city founder Anson Mills, who hired local architect Henry C. Trost to design it. At twelve stories and about 145 feet it was the tallest building in El Paso when completed, and it is often cited as one of the earliest reinforced-concrete-frame skyscrapers in the United States, its strong verticality recalling the Chicago School work of Louis Sullivan. The building stands on the site of the 1832 Ponce de Leon ranch and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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