Exterior view of the Cardenas Hotel, in Trinidad (Las Animas County), Colorado. This Fred Harvey hotel is a two story, mission style structure that features an arcaded porch, gabled terra-cotta roof, balcony, square tower with a domed roof, arched entries, and a portico. Letters over the entrance read "Cardenas." Railroad tracks of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company and the Purgatoire (Purgatory) River front the hotel. A man stands by a wagon near an entryway. The Park Street School, Tillotson Academy, Lutheran Church, Methodist Church, and Prospect Point are in the distance.
Date
[between 1903 and 1910?]
Notes
Accession number: 93.322.1825.; Aultman #634.; History Colorado.; Condition: scratched.; Formerly AM602.; Handwritten on negative envelope: "The lunch room was on the left, the dining room on the right, GA 1997." "Buildings on hill - Park St. School, Tillotson Academy, Lutheran Church, Methodist Church."; Title supplied.; R7200108444
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1900-1910.; Cardenas Hotel (Trinidad, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Purgatoire River (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1910.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1910.; Rivers--Colorado--Trinidad--1900-1910.
