Hotel Cortez (El Paso, Texas)

The Hotel Cortez is a historic eleven-story building in El Paso, Texas.

History
The Hotel Orndorff was built in 1926 for Alzina Orndorff DeGroff. It was designed by Trost & Trost. It cost $1.4 million to build. Mrs. DeGroff unexpectedly died one month before its completion. It was purchased by the Hussmann Hotel Company in 1933 and renamed first the Hotel Hussmann and then the Hotel Cortez in 1935. President John F. Kennedy stayed overnight on June 5, 1963. The hotel closed in 1970 and became the El Paso Job Corps Center, by lease with the Department of Labor. The structure was fully converted to an office building in 1984. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since September 24, 1980.