Trost & Trost

Who is Trost & Trost?

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 then on to El Paso in 1903. He partnered with Robert Rust until Rust died in 1905, then formed the firm of Trost & Trost with his brother Gustavus Adolphus Trost, who handled the business side of the enterprise and did some design work of his own. Adolphus Gustavus Trost was Gustavus's 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, and even Pueblo Revival. Many of the buildings designed by Trost & Trost display an influence from the Chicago School of architecture, especially the work of Louis Sullivan. Henry Trost had lived in Chicago between 1888 and 1896, and worked as a draftsman for the firm of Adler & Sullivan during that period.