Trinidad, Colorado - A Historic Building Survey
Holy Trinity Catholic Church Building
Map location #16.
A stone building of combined Georgian and Romanesque styles replaced the original adobe church in 1885 when Holy Trinity Catholic Church was dedicated.
According to church records, Don Felipe Baca owned the land and built the original adobe structure. When Father Charles Pinto was pastor some land donated to the church by Baca (the site occupied by The Schneider Brewing Co.) was sold and other money raising efforts, spanning a period of two years, were required before there was a sufficiently large fund to build the existing church. The church was blessed and dedicated at the Solemn Pontifical mass attended by some 2000 persons. The services were spoken in English by Fr. James Holland and in Spanish by R. Salvado Persone.
The date of the second photograph is July, 1970.
Figure 34 Holy Trinity Catholic Church Building
