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Hotel Sheldon

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Hotel Sheldon

August 20, 2026

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Pancho Villa’s rise from a shabby onlooker outside El Paso’s Sheldon Hotel to a celebrated revolutionary leader frames the history of the building, which became one of the most important borderland gathering places during the Mexican Revolution. Originally opened in 1887 as an office building…

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