Trinidad, Colorado - A Historic Building Survey
Franch Block
Map location #49.
Despite the fact that the building is called the Franch Block and bears that name together with an 1887 construction date it was not owned by the Franch's at the time it was built. Rather we find that Matthew Lynch was the original lot owner and that the very prominent early day entrepreneur James Lynch was the actual owner at the time the building was constructed. The abstracts seem to indicate that the Franch family first acquired the property in 1907 and it remained their property until in April of this year.
The first photograph was taken in 1867 (or possibly in 1868) at the corner of Beech and Main street. Barraclough's store was located on the southeast corner of Main and Beech. This represents the earliest photograph of Trinidad to which we have had access or of which we know. The second photograph was made in July of 1970.
Legal description: Lot 1, Block 102 OTS
Figure 96 Franch Block
