An older brother of mine and his wife recently bought a 1908 vintage house in the small southern Colorado town of Trinidad. My brother is one of those retired guys with just a little too much time on his hands and a great appreciation for old quarter-sawn oak woodwork. Unlike most homes of this vintage, almost none of the original woodwork has been modified or painted. Amazing. However, since the house was vacant for the last 20 years, almost everything else does need repair or updating! These are the "before" pictures. The exterior view of the house shows Fisher's Peak (9,626 feet) in the background.
The dogs in the photos are Flash, a yellow Labrador Retriever and Xena "Warrior Princess", the Yorkshire Terrier.
Located at the northern end of Raton Pass, Trinidad is a frontier town founded in 1861 on the Santa Fe Trail and with the arrival of the railway in 1878, grew into a commercial, agricultural and coal mining center. The town also hosts a picturesque Victorian Downtown located in it's Corazon de Trinidad National Historic District.
