![]() Built in 1910, one of the most classic and historic downtown El Paso office buildings is now on the market with a listing price of just under $3 million. Located at 717 E. San Antonio Avenue, the five-story Toltec Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed in a Beaux Arts Classicism style by well-known Western architect John Huddart. The structure, built at a cost of $100,000, was for years the home of the famous Toltec Club, a club favored by the city's business and civic elite. Upon the building's formal opening in the fall of 1910, the El Paso Herald made much of its "delicately colored rooms, libraries, and alcoves," also noting the apartments for women on the second floor, grill room on the third floor, and rooftop garden. The building hosted Theodore Roosevelt, who stopped by for breakfast at the Toltec Club in 1911, as well as the legendary Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, who rented space on the first floor in 1913 to serve as a purchasing office to buy supplies for his soldiers. In more recent years, the building has been the home to the Toltec Tiki Room, a bar offering Polynesian-style drinks. Measuring just over 46,000 square feet, the Toltec Building is being listed by the El Paso offices of Royal Carpet Real Estate. By Garry Boulard
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