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Grand Hall   Formal Parlor Family Parlor Josephine's Bedroom   Joseph & Octavia's Bedroom   Patio
Front View Of Home To Grand Hall To Formal Parlor Peek Into Josephine's Bedroom To The Family Parlor To Joseph & Octavias Bedroom To The Patio

Situated at 1120 Magoffin Avenue, the house is approximately ten blocks east of the central business district of El Paso. The home rests on a 1.5 acre site surrounded on three sides by a 1960s housing project for the elderly. The home is a one story, twenty-room adobe structure composed of three wings arranged in an U-shaped plan. The adobe walls support wood ceiling beams, which in turn supported a thick adobe roof, which has now been changed to a modern waterproof material.  

The distinctive exterior elements of the home are the door and window openings. Molded pedimented lintels and pilastered side trim frame these openings. The form of these decorative lintels and their use on the building display influences from the American inspired Territorial style, which developed, in the Southwest following the Civil War.  Photographs of the home show that the plaster on the north, west, and east elevations, was scored, giving the appearance of masonry blocks as early as the mid-1880s.