House at 912 Magoffin Avenue
912 Magoffin Ave, El Paso, TX912 Magoffin is an excellent example of high-style residential architecture in El Paso during the late 19th and early 20th century.
Built in the elite Magoffin neighborhood, it was one of many new large and fashionable homes financed by the city's burgeoning wealth. Its combination of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival stylistic features reflects the influx of contemporary design trends that accompanied the railroad's arrival in El Paso. Its form and materials are also representative of the city's dramatic shift in building practices during the period when the region's traditional adobe construction was abandoned in favor of more current national trends. As one of El Paso's best remaining examples of late Victorian residential architecture, the house meets Criterion C in the area of Architecture at the local level of significance.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
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