Trost & Trost Architects & Engineers, often known as Trost & Trost, was an architectural 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 to form Trost & Rust. Rust died in 1905 and later that year Trost formed the firm of Trost & Trost with his twin brother Gustavus Adolphus Trost, also an architect, who had 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 a year.
From 1892 to 1896, 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, DC.
Selected buildings
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 in Tucson, 1900-1901 Arizona; Trost & Trost Willard Hotel (Pueblo Hotel and Apartments), 1902–1904, 145 S.6th Ave. Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost Santa Rita Hotel, 1904, Tucson, Arizona Trost & Rust (demolished 1972) Ronstadt House, 1904, 607 North Sixth Avenue in Tucson, Arizona; Trost & Rust Bayless House, 1905, 145 East University Boulevard Tucson, Arizona; Trost & Rust Tucson Residence (721 E. University Blvd.), 1905, Tucson, Arizona; Henry C. Trost William Ward Turney residence (now the International Museum of Art), 1908, El Paso, Texas Young Men's Christian Association, 1906–1908; El Paso, Texas, Henry C. Trost (demolished in 1961) Manning House 1907 for Levi Manning at 450 W. Paseo Redondo in Tucson designed by Henry Trost
Henry C. Trost residence, 1908, 1013 W. Yandell Dr. El Paso, Texas ; Henry C. Trost
Walter Douglas House, 1908, Bisbee, Arizona; 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. Empty in 2015. New Mexico State University campus, 1909, Las Cruces, New Mexico Abdou Building, 1910, at 115 North Mesa Street at Texas Avenue in El Paso, Texas