Trost & Trost

Henry Charles Trost was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1860 to German immigrant parents. His father Ernst Trost, was a carpenter and builder. Graduating from art school in 1877, Trost worked as a draftsman for a Toledo architect for three years. Migrating west to Pueblo, Colorado in 1880, Trost established a partnership with Frank Weston, with whom he practiced off and on for eighteen years.

In 1887, after Pueblo's boom years dropped off, Trost moved to Chicago, an emerging center for architectural activity. Trost built his Chicago career designing in metal. He received national credit for advancing the art of metal into ornamental form. Trost contributed to the elaborate metal work on the Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. building in Chicago.

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