The 1882 Second Empire-style Bloom Mansion Museum, part of a block-long museum complex in Trinidad, Colorado, on the Purgatoire River on the northern end of the Raton Pass leading into New Mexico. Its builder, Frank Bloom, was a businessman and cattle baron whose cattle holdings extended from New Mexico to Montana

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Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.