Built for both live and film productions, the two- and three-story red brick box has an extravagantly ornamented facade. Its four-bay three-story frontispiece evokes the thirteenth-century Alhambra in Granada, Spain, with its five free-standing columns and stilted-arch third-story windows with alfiz-like rectangular frames, which give a Moorish tint to one of the more exotic facades in El Paso (and indeed Trost and Trost’s body of work). The frontispiece stands slightly forward from the building’s wall plane, and because it does not reach the building’s corners, it appears to float in front of the brick wall. The Alhambra Theater was built by Rodolfo and Manuel Cruz for the Mexican exile community that had sought refuge from the revolution just across the Rio Grande (considerable military action took place in Ciudad Juárez in 1911 and 1913, watched by El Pasoans from their rooftops). Today the Alhambra is a live music performance space.