{"id":312020,"date":"2026-05-28T06:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312020\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:34:11","slug":"el-paso-council-approves-840000-plus-sale-of-historic-a-b-fall-mansion-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312020\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso council approves $840,000-plus sale of historic A.B. Fall Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso\u2019s historic A.B. Fall Mansion has a new owner after the City Council voted to sell the property during its meeting on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>City leaders agreed to sell the mansion to Investor Edge Limited Company for a little more than $840,000.<\/p>\n<p>The mansion was first built in 1907 by Albert Fall, one of New Mexico\u2019s first senators. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-puts-historic-albert-b-fall-mansion-on-the-market-amid-preservation-concerns?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso puts historic Albert B. Fall mansion on the market amid preservation concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city took over the property in 2006 due to neglect by the previous owner.<\/p>\n<p>About $1.2 million was put into renovations, and the mansion was used for office space up until 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s Central Appraisal District has valued the mansion at about $1.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>City records indicated in 2025 that El Paso has spent approximately $2.3 million on the mansion, with $1.3 million allocated to construction, $120,000 for architecture and design, and $45,000 each for testing and inspections. In 2024, $100,000 was spent on roof repairs alone.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech last occupied the mansion until 2021.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\/newsletter-daily\/el-paso-council-approves-840000-plus-sale-of-historic-ab-fall-mansion?SRC=LINK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso&#8217;s $2 million mansion investment remains in disrepair<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso\u2019s historic A.B. Fall Mansion has a new owner after the City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-312020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}