# Popular Department Store

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{{Use American English|date=July 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox NRHP
  | name = Popular Department Store
  | nrhp_type = 
  | image = The Popular Department Store.JPG
  | caption = The building in 2012
  | location= 102 North Mesa Street, [El Paso, Texas](/source/El_Paso%2C_Texas)
  | coordinates = {{coord|31|45|30|N|106|29|10|W|region:US_type:landmark|name=Popular Department Store|display=inline,title}}
  | locmapin = Texas#USA
  | built = {{Start date|1917}}
  | architect = Trost & Trost
  | architecture = Chicago
  | added = September 24, 1980
  | area = less than one acre
  | mpsub = [https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/64000837.pdf Commercial Structures of El Paso by Henry C. Trost TR]
  | refnum = 80004111<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2013a}}</ref>
}}
The '''Popular Department Store''' is a historic building in [El Paso, Texas](/source/El_Paso%2C_Texas). It was built in 1917 for [The Popular](/source/The_Popular_(department_store)), a chain of department stores founded by Adolph Schwartz in El Paso in 1902. His heirs inherited the building, and they sold it in 1995; it later became the Fallas Department Store.<ref name="henryctrostpopulardrygoods">{{cite web |title=The Popular Dry Goods Company |url=http://www.henrytrost.org/buildings/popular-dry-goods-company/ |website=Henry C. Trost Historical Organization |accessdate=February 12, 2019}}</ref> The building was designed in the [Chicago School architectural style](/source/Chicago_School_(architecture)) by [Trost & Trost](/source/Trost_%26_Trost).<ref name="henryctrostpopulardrygoods"/> It has been listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_El_Paso_County%2C_Texas) since September 24, 1980.<ref name="nris"/>

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{{National Register of Historic Places}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Popular Department Store}}
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1917
Category:National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Texas
Category:Chicago school architecture in Texas
Category:Trost & Trost buildings

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