The entire block across Main Street is the Trinidad History Museum, a complex of three museums and historic gardens overlooking the Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail. The Baca House, on the right, was built in 1870 by John Hough, a Santa Fe Trail trader and Trinidad businessman. In 1872, he sold the house to Felipe Baca, one of the city's founding fathers. Baca's family owned the house until 1931. An unusual two-story adobe in the Southwest Territorial style, it is crowned with an atypical New England seaport widow's walk. Behind the Baca House, in a low-adobe building that was living quarters for Baca family workers, is the Santa Fe Trail Museum with artifacts of early Trinidad and interpretive displays of the Mountain Route. On the left is the Bloom Mansion, built by Frank and Sarah Bloom in 1882. Bloom was a businessman, a banker, and cattle baron with rangelands running from New Mexico into Montana. A fine example of French Empire architecture, the interior of the home is ornately Victorian. The Bloom family retained the house into the 1940s. The properties were purchased by the Trinidad Historical Society and the Denver Friends of Historical Trinidad and given to the Colorado Historical Society which operates the museums.