100--116 W. Main St., Trinidad, Colorado. County/parish: Las Animas.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 07, 1972. NRIS 72000275.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Jaffa Opera House, at 100–116 W. Main St. in Trinidad, Colorado, was built in 1883. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
It is Italianate, in fact High Victorian Italianate, in style. The first floor provided commercial spaces; the second floor provided a 710-seat opera house with a 45 by 20 feet (13.7 m × 6.1 m) stage and a 22 by 16 feet (6.7 m × 4.9 m) proscenium.
When listed in 1972, the main commercial space had been Hausman Drug Store for many years. Photo in 2012 and Google Streetview dated May 2018 show it apparently vacant. [2011 Colorado earthquake] damaged the opera house, and some experts recommended its demolition in 2011, but a community coalesced in opposition to that. A renovation project scheduled to be completed in 2019 was planned.
It is included as a contributing building in the Corazon de Trinidad historic district, National Register-listed in 1973.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84131623