An 1882 French Empire Victorian mansion built for cattle baron Frank G. Bloom, now operated by History Colorado, where ghost tours document rolling-ball sounds and apparitions of the Bloom daughters on the grounds.
312 E Main St, Trinidad, CO 81082
Research updated June 2026
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All Ages
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$
Admission fee for the Trinidad History Museum; ghost tours through Haunted Corazon carry separate pricing. See historycolorado.org for museum admission.
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Limited Access
Victorian mansion with historic interiors; may have stairs and uneven surfaces.
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Photos OK
Est. 1882 · Listed on the National Register of Historic Places · Built for Frank G. Bloom, prominent cattle baron and banker of southern Colorado · Operated by History Colorado as part of the Trinidad History Museum complex · French Empire Victorian architectural landmark in Las Animas County
The Bloom Mansion was constructed in 1882 for Frank G. Bloom, one of the most significant commercial and financial figures in southern Colorado's late-nineteenth-century development. According to Wikipedia's entry on the Frank G. Bloom House, Bloom accumulated his fortune through cattle ranching and banking in the Trinidad area during the period when the city served as a major supply hub for Colorado's cattle industry and the coalfields of Las Animas County.
The mansion was built in the French Empire Victorian style—a design choice that reflected Bloom's wealth and social ambitions—and features the characteristic mansard roof and decorative detailing of that architectural tradition. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and History Colorado acquired it as part of the Trinidad History Museum complex, which also includes the adjacent Baca House, the former home of another prominent Trinidad family.
The museum operates as a State Historical Fund-supported site and provides guided tours of both mansion interiors. Trinidad itself sits on the Santa Fe Trail and developed as a commercial hub at the junction of the Purgatoire River and Raton Pass route into New Mexico, making Bloom's era a particularly documented period in the region's history.
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The paranormal tradition at the Bloom Mansion in Trinidad centers on two recurring phenomena. The first is an unexplained rolling-ball sound heard on the upper floors and in the interior corridors. Local lore attributes this to the spirit of one of Frank G. Bloom's sons, who reportedly died of typhoid during childhood—a cause of death documented in the World Journal Newspaper's coverage of Trinidad's haunted history, which places the mansion among the town's most actively haunted properties.
The second reported phenomenon involves apparitions of daughters from the Bloom family, described as walking along the mansion's exterior grounds and in the formal garden areas. These apparitions have been reported by multiple accounts, according to the World Journal Newspaper documentation.
Haunted Corazon, a Trinidad-based ghost tour operator, explicitly includes the Trinidad History Museum grounds—encompassing both the Bloom Mansion and the adjacent Baca House—in its guided ghost tours. This means the site has an ongoing organized paranormal tourism operation, with regular visitors specifically seeking out its dark history. The combination of History Colorado's academic curation of the building's documented history and Haunted Corazon's paranormal tours has made the Bloom Mansion one of the more formally documented haunted historic homes in southern Colorado.
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Explore the Frank G. Bloom Mansion and adjacent Baca House through the Trinidad History Museum, operated by History Colorado. The 1882 French Empire Victorian mansion documents the life of one of southern Colorado's most prominent cattle barons and bankers.
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