Frank Latuda House
Las Animas County
The 1925 Frank Latuda House is architecturally significant as an excellent example of an early twentieth-century distinctive Mediterranean Revival style house. Character-defining features include a red tile, low-pitched hipped roof, arched entrances, light colored brick, and original woodwork, hardware, and fixtures. The Mediterranean Revival is not a common style in Trinidad and the house is the only documented example by the prolific firm of I.H. Rapp, W.M. Rapp and A.C. Hendrickson, Architects.
Frank Latuda House
The Frank Latuda House is significant at the state level as the only unaltered, intact Mediterranean Revival residence and garage known to exist in rural eastern Colorado. Initially popularized by the 1915 Pan American Exhibition in San Diego, Mediterranean Revival style architecture became a prominent eclectic design in coastal cities of Florida and California through the 1920s.