Marker Inscription
Architecture
Historic Place
Plaza Hotel
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About this site
Plaza Hotel is a historic place in El Paso, El Paso County, dedicated in 1980. 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 31.7586, -106.4887 near El Paso. The nearest cataloged historic site is Pioneer Plaza (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include El Paso, First Mortage Company Building, and Mills Building.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2080004110. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The Plaza Hotel at 106 Mills Avenue in downtown El Paso opened on November 30, 1930 as Conrad Hilton's first high-rise hotel, built on the site of the earlier Sheldon Hotel that had burned in 1929. Designed by Trost & Trost, the 19-story Art Deco tower of cast-in-place concrete rose about 239 feet to become the tallest building in El Paso, a distinction it held for more than three decades. Elizabeth Taylor, then married to Conrad Hilton's son Nicky, stayed here during the 1956 filming of Giant, and the hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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