Brick and stucco houses from the 1880s to the 1920s climb a hillside above the Rio Grande, with Ciudad Juárez visible across the border.
What Sunset Heights looks like
West Yandell Drive climbs the hillside past red brick and stucco houses, two and three storeys, with porches and low retaining walls holding the slope behind them. The streets follow the rock underneath rather than a grid, so the blocks run rectangular in most places and diamond shaped around . From the higher blocks the view opens south across the Rio Grande into Ciudad Juárez and the desert mountains beyond.
The on West Yandell Drive has a red brick ground floor under white stucco and dark timber upstairs. Further along the same street, architect keeps a low roofline and deep eaves in the Prairie style. Queen Anne turrets, Mission Revival arches and Tudor gables stand on the blocks around them, in the same brick and stucco.
One adobe house remains at and Lawton Avenue, the last of its kind on these blocks. The brick house known locally as the stands on Corto Street, two storeys with a plain front. runs past both, climbing toward at the edge of the district.
marks the opposite edge of the district, past more of the same two and three storey houses, brick fronts facing the street with little setback. Cars line the kerb on the steeper blocks, where retaining walls hold the lots level with the road.
Shot in Sunset Heights
For the 2025 film One Battle After Another, the production used a house on Mundy Drive in Sunset Heights as the home of a French 75 radio operator. The scene is one of several the film shot around El Paso, on hillside blocks a few streets from the Rio Grande.
One Battle After Another, 2025
A house on Mundy Drive
A house on Mundy Drive served as the home of the French 75 radio operator known as Billygoat, who is found and pressed for information early in the film. The production credit names the street but not a house number. Street View
What Sunset Heights can double for
Monte Vista in San Antonio, Texas
Monte Vista's blocks are lined with Queen Anne, Classical Revival and Tudor houses built between 1890 and 1930, red brick under hipped and gabled roofs from one corner to the next. Kings Highway and Belknap Place hold the same mix of revival styles Sunset Heights has. Monte Vista is flat and its lots run larger, with more mature trees screening the facades, so a street with fewer trees and a visible slope holds the illusion better. Try searching Queen Anne and Tudor houses now.
Angelino Heights sits on a hillside above downtown Los Angeles with curving streets cut into the slope, the same elevated setting Sunset Heights has above the river. Carroll Avenue has the heaviest concentration of its period houses. Its houses lean more ornately Victorian and Craftsman than Sunset Heights' plainer foursquares and Prairie style fronts, so a tighter frame on a simpler facade holds the period better than a wide one. Try searching hillside Victorian houses now.
Bisbee Residential Historic District in Bisbee, Arizona
Bisbee's residential streets climb a hillside as steep as Sunset Heights', with houses built into the slope and stairways standing in where the grade is too steep for a street. Its small single family houses date mostly from the same early 1900s building boom. Bisbee's houses are smaller and plainer than Sunset Heights' brick revival houses, and its stairway streets are steeper than its blocks. This works only for background hillside shots rather than a street level match. Try searching steep hillside streets now.
