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Toltec Club Building

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1910, J. J. Huddart. 602 Magoffin Ave.

Modeled on a Renaissance palazzo, the five-story, buff brick clubhouse by Huddart of Denver was situated between downtown to the west and the nineteenth-century neighborhoods to the east that were built on land developed by the Magoffin family. The two-story base, containing a restaurant and clubrooms, has deeply rusticated brick coursing and arched windows, with cast-stone balconies over brackets at the second floor. A projecting cornice over shielded brackets terminates the rusticated base and forms a platform for the smooth walls with square windows of the second and third floors. Another bracketed cornice separates the attic level. Prominent members hosted visiting dignitaries, conducted business, and held balls and formal gatherings in the building. Henry Trost was an early member of this men’s club that closed in the Great Depression. The building has served various purposes since.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Toltec Club Building", [El Paso, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EP30.

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Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 485-486.

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