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Kern Place Neighborhood

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1914 developed. Bounded by Coffin and N. Mesa sts., E. Robinson Ave., and Piedmont and Mesita drs.

Kern Place was El Paso’s first garden suburban subdivision. Located at what was then the north end of N. Mesa Street, beyond the university, it was bordered by what became Billy Rogers Arroyo on the southeast and Crazy Cat Mountain in the Franklin Mountains on the east. Streets in Kern Place curve in alignment and frame Madeline Park and Alethea Park.

Houses in Kern Place span from the bungalow era of the 1910s to ranch houses of the 1950s. Among the notable houses are the Mediterranean-styled green-roofed R. M. Dudley House (1917, Gibson and Robertson), home of the president of the University of Texas at El Paso at 711 Cincinnati Avenue; the towered, Spanish-styled Gustavus A. Trost House (1923, Trost and Trost) at 1107 E. Baltimore Drive; and David Hilles’s first house in El Paso at 708 McKelligon Drive, built for Robert Massey in 1955, a flat-roofed, stonewalled, patio-centered modern house.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Max Grossman House
Rim Road Houses
El Paso High School
Sunset Heights Historic District
Temple Mount Sinai

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Kern Place Neighborhood", [El Paso, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-EP39.

Print Source

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, 493-493.

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