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Historic Place
El Paisano Hotel (1978)
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About this site
El Paisano Hotel is a historic place in Marfa, Presidio County, dedicated in 1978. It is one of 3 historic places documented in Presidio County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 81 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 30.3119, -104.0212 near Marfa. The nearest cataloged historic site is Presidio County Courthouse (courthouse), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Humphris-Humphreys House, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and El Paisano Hotel.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #2078002973. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Designed by the El Paso firm Trost & Trost in the Spanish Revival style, the El Paisano Hotel opened in Marfa in 1930, built by the Gateway Hotel Company in anticipation of a local oil boom that never came; its 1929 groundbreaking came just days before the Black Tuesday stock-market crash. The hotel is best known as the headquarters for the cast and crew of the 1956 film Giant during the summer of 1955, when James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson stayed there. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Also at or near Marfa, Presidio County
“El Paisano Hotel” names 2 distinct records in Presidio County. This page is the historic place dedicated in 1978 in Marfa. The others:
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