El Paso businessman and civic leader Zach T. White, builder of the first electric and gas utilities in El Paso at the turn the twentieth century, hired Trost and Trost to design this 10-story hotel, retaining Mauran, Russell and Crowell of St. Louis as consulting architects. Faced with red brick and ornamented with stone and concrete, the building has a steel and concrete frame modeled on buildings that survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The upper floors are U-shaped in plan, opening guest rooms to sunlight and ventilation. The ground-floor lobby fills in the open space of the U with a grand domed ceiling of Tiffany-style art glass, which now lights a lobby bar. The 17-story Westin Hotel addition (1986, Jerde Partnership), with a steeply sloped gabled roof, is ungainly, especially at ground level, but it saved the Paso del Norte from probable demolition. In 2016, the Meyers Group acquired the Camino Real from Mexican owners and plans to renovate the hotel and add a 22-story hotel-apartment building on the site to the west.