Feel the mountainside beneath El Paso High School, the 'Lady on the Hill' overlooking the city and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico across the boundary. Perched on a mountainside at the foot of the Franklin Mountains, this is the Lady on the Hill, a building that stands out prominently on the horizon and commands a view of the central city and its boundary with Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Built by the architectural firm of Trost & Trost, its Greco-Roman features made it a unique local landmark, and construction cost about $500,000.
Step closer in imagination: through the front entrance a hallway circles the rear of the large auditorium, with coffered low ceilings and classical columns. Underfoot the main corridor is marble, the other halls are quarter-sawed oak, and the classroom floors are hard maple — material choices that still speak of the care in its design. The school serves the west-central section of the city, roughly south and west of the Franklin Mountains and north of Interstate 10 to the vicinity of Executive Center Boulevard, and is fed by Wiggs Middle School, which receives graduates from Lamar, Mesita, and Vilas elementaries.
Marble, oak, and hard maple floors still carry your footsteps today.