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Architecture
Historic Place
White House Department Store and Hotel McCoy
The landmarks the nation chose to remember.
About this site
White House Department Store and Hotel McCoy 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 31.7589, -106.4893 near El Paso. The nearest cataloged historic site is Mills Building (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Plaza Theatre, Pioneer Plaza, and El Paso.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2080004115. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The White House Department Store and Hotel McCoy at San Antonio and Oregon Streets in downtown El Paso was built in 1912 to a Chicago School design by Henry C. Trost, its seven stories sheathed in white terra-cotta that echoes the neighboring Mills Building. The White House store, founded in 1900 by Felix Brunschwig and his nephews, occupied the lower floors while a hotel filled the upper stories, and it remained one of El Paso's best-known businesses until it closed in the late 1970s. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 24, 1980.
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