Trost & Trost Architects & Engineers, often known as Trost & Trost, was an architecture firm based in El Paso, Texas. The firm's chief designer was Henry Charles Trost, who was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1860. Trost moved from Chicago to Tucson, Arizona, in 1899 and to El Paso in 1903. He partnered with Robert Rust until Rust died in 1905.
That year he formed the firm of Trost & Trost with his brother Gustavus Adolphus Trost, an architect. Adolphus Gustavus Trost was Gustavus' twin brother; in 1908 he joined the firm as a structural engineer.
Between 1903 and Henry Trost's death on September 19, 1933, the firm designed hundreds of buildings in the El Paso area and in other Southwestern cities, including Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, and San Angelo.
Throughout his career Henry Trost demonstrated his ability to work in a variety of styles, including Art Deco, Mission Revival, Prairie, Pueblo Revival, and Bhutanese Dzong architecture, at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Many of the buildings designed by Trost & Trost display an influence from the Chicago School of architecture. Henry Trost had lived in Chicago between 1888 and 1896. In 1889, Henry started the American Art Metal Work Company with Emil Henry Seeman which lasted about 1 year. It is from 1892 to 1896, that Trost served as vice president of Chicago Ornamental Iron Company. The company is associated with metal ornament that formed the front railings of the boxes and balconies in the Lafayette Square Opera House in Washington, D.C.
Steinfeld Mansion (Tucson's First Owls Club), 1898 Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost
South Hall, 1898, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost (demolished 1958)
Schneider-Healy House, 1900–1902, Tucson, Arizona; Henry Trost
Gardiner / Ramsey House 1900-1901, 144 E. University Blvd. Tucson, Arizona Trost & Trost
Tucson's Second Owls Club, 1902-1903 Tucson, Arizona; Trost & Rust
Carnegie Free Library, 1900-1901 Tucson, Arizona; Trost & Trost
Scheider-Healy House, 1900–1902, Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost
Willard Hotel (Pueblo Hotel and Apartments), 1902–1904, Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost
Santa Rita Hotel, 1904, Tucson, Arizona Trost & Rust (demolished 1972)
Ronstadt House, 1904, Tucson, Arizona; Trost & Rust
Bayless House, 1905, Tucson, Arizona; Trost & Rust
Tucson Residence (721 E. University Blvd.), 1905, Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost
W.W. Turney residence (now the International Museum of Art), 1906, El Paso, Texas
Young Men's Christian Association, 1906-1908; El Paso, Texas, Henry C. Trost (demolished in 1961)
Henry C. Trost residence, 1908, El Paso, Texas ; Henry C. Trost
Walter Douglas House, 1908, Bisbee, AZ; Trost & Trost
Goodrich House, 1908, Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost
El Paso Country Club, 1908–1909, El Paso, Texas, Henry C. Trost (destroyed by fire in 1916)
Caples Building, 1909, El Paso, Texas
New Mexico State University campus, 1909, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Abdou Building, 1910, El Paso, Texas
Anson Mills Building, 1911, El Paso, Texas
Kerr Mercantile Building, 1927, Sanderson, Texas; Henry C. Trost
San Angelo City Hall & Auditorium, 1929, San Angelo, Texas
Hotel Paso del Norte, 1912, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
Popular Department Store (now 1 Union Fashion Center), 1912, El Paso, Texas
White House Department Store (now The Centre), 1912, El Paso, Texas
El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Depot 1912 Tucson, Arizona
El Paso High School, 1913–1916, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
Scottish Rite Cathedral, 1915; Tucson, Arizona; Trost & Trost
El Paso Country Court House, 1915–1916, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost (demolished in 1988)
Occidental Life Building, 1917, Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of Texas at El Paso- Old Main Building, 1917, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
University of Texas at El Paso- Quinn Hall, 1917, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
University of Texas at El Paso- Graham Hall, 1917, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
University of Texas at El Paso- Geology Building, El Paso, Texas, 1917
Rosenwald Building, 1920, Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of Texas at El Paso- Kelly Hall, 1920–1921, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
First National Bank Building, 1922, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Houston High School, 1922, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
State National Bank Building, 1922, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
Hotel Cortez - Hotel Orndorff, 1922, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
Franciscan Hotel, 1923, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Henry C. Trost (demolished)
Loretto Academy, 1922–1936, El Paso, Texas; Gustavus A. Trost
Luhrs Building, 1924, Phoenix, Arizona; Henry C. Trost
Sunshine Building 1924 in Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico
El Paso Community College, 1925, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
Hassayampa Inn, 1927, Prescott, Arizona; Trost & Trost
Gage Hotel, 1927, Marathon, Texas
The Holland Hotel, 1928, Alpine, Texas
Gadsden Hotel, 1929, Douglas, Arizona
Luhrs Tower, 1929, Phoenix, Arizona; Henry C. Trost
Hotel Paisano, 1930, Marfa, Texas - Built by Charles Bassett: Gateway hotel chain
Plaza Hotel - Plaza Motor Hotel, New Sheldon Hotel, Hilton Hotel amongst other names, 1929, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
O. T. Bassett Tower, 1930, El Paso, Texas; Henry C. Trost
Driskill Hotel, 1930 tower addition, Austin, Texas; Henry C. Trost
University of Texas at El Paso- Worrell Hall, 1935–1937, El Paso, Texas; Gustavus A. Trost
University of Texas at El Paso- Benedict, 1935–1937, El Paso, Texas; Gustavus A. Trost
El Paso Country Club repairs (proposed 1920-1922), 1936, El Paso, Texas; Gustavus A. Trost
University of Texas at El Paso- Holliday Hall, 1933, El Paso, Texas; Gustavus A. Trost