One of the great El Paso mansions from the early 20th century with a particular Mediterranean Revival design flair is now up for sale.
Located at 525 Corto Way, the two-story structure measures just over 5,000 square feet and includes half a dozen bedrooms and five bathrooms, two living rooms, polished wood wall details and ceiling crossbeams.
Designed by the region’s most famous architect, Henry Trost, who also lived in the surrounding neighborhood, the mansion is listed for $1.2 million.
The structure was built for industrialist Ernest Kohlberg and his wife Olga, a supporter of women’s rights and president of the Women’s Club of El Paso.
The mansion is in the city’s Sunset Heights Historic District, an area of the city that in the late 1800s and early 1900s was home to dozens of wealthy residents living in dozens of Classical Revival, Mediterranean Revival, and Spanish Colonial Revival-designed mansions.
Homes in the neighborhood had some of the earliest water and gas line connections. “Ballrooms adorned the top floors of several Sunset Heights residences,” a reporter for the El Paso Herald-Post subsequently noted.
March 19, 2026
By Garry Boulard
Photo courtesy of Zillow
