Step back in time at the Trinidad History Museum, a unique complex overlooking the Santa Fe Trail . Historic photographs, family possessions and commercial goods evoke the lifestyles of the early inhabitants of southeastern Colorado in the Santa Fe Trail Museum. The facility extends behind two distinguished hilltop residences; the Baca House was built in the adobe style toward the end of the Santa Fe Trail era in 1870 by Frank Hough, manager of the Prowers & Hough Mercantile. The present day museum/home blends Hispanic folk art with Victorian furniture. Next door is the Bloom Mansion, home of cattle baron Frank Bloom and his wife Sarah. Constructed in 1882, the Victorian rococo house is now filled with ornate furnishings from the period. Brick pathways wind through a landscape of century-old trees, historic gardens filled with herbs and vegetables of the Hispanic Southwest, and recreated Victorian flower beds.
