El Paso, Texas
Stanton House
A century-old former furniture showroom in downtown El Paso became a 42-room art hotel built around a four-story kinetic light sculpture.
Open · 2018
Stanton House converted a century-old former furniture showroom in downtown El Paso into a 42-room art-focused boutique hotel, opened in 2018. Its Shylights light installation, more than 100 curated artworks and Taft-Díaz restaurant have earned it a MICHELIN Guide listing.
The essentials
- Group
- Independent
- Opening
- 2018
- Rooms & suites
- 42 rooms and suites
- Segment
- Luxury boutique
- Designer
- Anne Tucker (Studio A Group) and Jack Sanders (Design Build Adventure)
- Entry rate
- From $175
The place
209 N Stanton Street, in the heart of downtown El Paso, near San Jacinto Plaza, the Plaza Theatre and the Paso del Norte Bridge into Ciudad Juárez, Mexico: a genuinely walkable downtown and border-culture setting rather than a highway-adjacent hotel.
The concept
Businessman Miguel Fernandez bought the circa-1912 Rogers Furniture Building in 2011 and converted the four-story structure into a boutique hotel, replacing 80 tons of old concrete with structural steel and adding a fifth floor of suites. It opened in 2018 built around more than 100 curated artworks from Mexico, Europe and El Paso, including pieces by Damien Hirst and Robert Davidson alongside regional artists, centered on "Shylights," a moving light installation by Amsterdam's Studio Drift that runs down a four-story lightwell. The look deliberately avoids cliché Southwest hotel imagery in favor of a register the owner has compared to Mexico City's top luxury properties.
Dining & wellness
Taft-Díaz, named for the 1909 Taft-Díaz presidential summit held in El Paso, serves Mexican-influenced international cuisine for breakfast, lunch, dinner and weekend brunch under chef Oscar Herrera. Blush Boutique & Spa offers massages, facials, body treatments, a flotation tank, Vichy showers and steam rooms, alongside a 24-hour fitness studio, a rooftop patio overlooking downtown and Juárez, and a private speakeasy.
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