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Oxford Hotel

Added by yongli on 01/21/2021 - 16:11, last changed on 01/21/2021 - 16:11
The Oxford Hotel (1600 Seventeenth Street) opened in 1891 and is now Denver ’s oldest surviving hotel. Developed by brewer Adolph Zang and designed by architect Frank Edbrooke , the hotel originally provided a luxurious stay for travelers passing through nearby Union Station . After being restored...

Fairmount Cemetery

Added by yongli on 01/21/2021 - 15:36, last changed on 01/21/2021 - 16:08

Fairmount Cemetery

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Fairmount Cemetery is Colorado’s most prominent and populous burial ground and mortuary. Founded in 1890 in southeast Denver , it is the city’s second-oldest active cemetery after Riverside (1876). Today the 280-acre cemetery is home to some 180,000 interments, including prominent Coloradans such...

Great Western Sugar Company

Added by yongli on 01/20/2021 - 17:50, last changed on 01/21/2021 - 10:43
The Great Western Sugar Company was co-founded by Charles Boettcher in 1900 after he observed the hardy, profitable sugar beet crop while vacationing in Europe. In Colorado, the sugar beet industry he helped launch proved a boon to the state and local communities for nearly eighty years. After...

Walden / North Park

Added by yongli on 10/20/2020 - 10:01, last changed on 10/20/2020 - 10:17
Founded in 1888, Walden is located in the high basin of North Park in Jackson County , at an elevation of 8,099 feet. Considered the “ Moose Viewing Capital of Colorado,” Walden has an estimated population of 600. Despite its small population, the town stays busy with seasonal influxes of hunters,...

Equitable Building

Added by yongli on 10/19/2020 - 17:21, last changed on 10/21/2020 - 11:41
The Equitable Building (730 Seventeenth Street) is located in the heart of downtown Denver ’s financial district. Built in 1892 as the town’s premier office structure, it arguably still is. It also signaled that eastern capitalists had begun focusing on Denver as the most promising location for...

Denver Botanic Gardens

Added by yongli on 10/19/2020 - 15:44, last changed on 10/21/2020 - 11:48
Established in 1951, Denver Botanic Gardens (DBG) has grown from a small group of horticulturally minded citizens into a major civic organization. With a prominent conservatory and core city gardens complemented by a 750-acre suburban campus at Chatfield, DBG has become the nation’s most-visited...

Riverside Cemetery

Added by yongli on 10/16/2020 - 11:43, last changed on 10/16/2020 - 11:43
Riverside Cemetery was established along the South Platte River in 1876, making it the oldest surviving cemetery in Denver . It is the final resting place for many prominent early Coloradans, including John Evans , Augusta Tabor , Miguel Otero , and Barney Ford . The seventy-seven-acre cemetery was...

Horsetooth Reservoir

Added by yongli on 09/14/2020 - 16:44, last changed on 10/20/2020 - 09:43
Horsetooth Reservoir is located in the foothills just west of Fort Collins . The Bureau of Reclamation began construction of the reservoir in 1946 as part of the larger Colorado–Big Thompson Project , which provided additional irrigation water for the northern Front Range . Horsetooth Reservoir was...

Denver International Airport

Added by yongli on 09/14/2020 - 16:36, last changed on 09/17/2020 - 11:11
Located on a 52.4-square-mile site 25 miles northeast of the city, Denver International Airport (DIA) is the largest airport in North America by land area and the second-largest in the world. This vast airport with a spectacular tented terminal makes Denver one of the nation’s top air hubs. Since...

Trappers Lake and Flat Tops Wilderness

Added by yongli on 09/14/2020 - 15:14, last changed on 09/14/2020 - 15:14
The Flat Tops Wilderness covers more than 235,000 acres of remote mountains and forests in Garfield , Rio Blanco , and Eagle Counties on Colorado’s Western Slope . Its most popular natural feature is Trappers Lake, the state’s second-largest natural lake, fed by the North Fork of the White River...

Hover Home and Farmstead

Added by yongli on 09/14/2020 - 15:01, last changed on 09/14/2020 - 15:01
The Hover Home and Farmstead is a historic mansion and agricultural property on the west edge of Longmont . Retired pharmacist Charles Hover and his wife, Katherine, bought the farm in 1902 and built the mansion in 1913–14. Over the next several decades, the Hovers ran one of the most successful...

Palmer Lake Star

Added by yongli on 07/31/2020 - 15:25, last changed on 07/31/2020 - 15:25
The Palmer Lake Star at 500 Highland Road lies on a steep 58 percent slope of Sundance Mountain west of the Town of Palmer Lake . Built in 1935 to spur civic pride during the depths of the Great Depression , the 457-foot-wide star represents the star of Bethlehem and is lit throughout each December...

Sacred Heart Cathedral

Added by yongli on 07/31/2020 - 14:51, last changed on 07/31/2020 - 14:51
The Sacred Heart Cathedral at 1025 North Grand Avenue in Pueblo was dedicated as Sacred Heart Church in 1913. A rare example of Gothic Revival architecture in Pueblo, the cathedral demonstrates the continued importance of Catholicism in the history of Colorado. In 1942 the Vatican responded to the...

Kaplan-Hoover Bison Kill Site

Added by yongli on 07/31/2020 - 14:42, last changed on 07/31/2020 - 14:42
The Kaplan-Hoover Bison Kill Site west of Windsor preserves one of the largest single-event Archaic arroyo kills ever found. Discovered in 1997 during construction of a housing development, the site was excavated by a Colorado State University (CSU) team led by Lawrence C. Todd. Because of the site...

Leslie J. Savage Library

Added by yongli on 07/31/2020 - 14:04, last changed on 07/31/2020 - 14:12
The Leslie J. Savage Library at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison is a Spanish Colonial Revival–style building designed by Temple Hoyne Buell and built in 1938–39. Funded in part by the Public Works Administration (PWA), the library included a reading room, a lounge, lecture rooms,...

Denver Tramway Powerhouse

Added by yongli on 07/09/2020 - 10:53, last changed on 07/09/2020 - 10:53
The Denver Tramway Powerhouse (1416 Platte Street) was built in 1901–4 to generate power for the Denver Tramway Company ’s extensive network of electric streetcars. From a 1911 expansion until the last electric streetcar service in 1950, the powerhouse served as the company’s main source of...

Denver City Cable Railway Building

Added by yongli on 07/09/2020 - 10:27, last changed on 07/09/2020 - 10:27
The Denver City Cable Railway Building (1201 Eighteenth Street) was built in 1889 as the company’s new headquarters and wheelhouse for its system of cable cars. As a central piece of Denver ’s large cable-car network, which was one of the most extensive in the country, the building helped made the...

Richthofen Castle

Added by yongli on 07/08/2020 - 16:10, last changed on 07/08/2020 - 16:10
Richthofen Castle (7020 E. Twelfth Avenue) was completed in 1886 for Baron Walter von Richthofen and is now one of Denver ’s oldest and most celebrated buildings. Thought to be the design of Denver architect Alexander Cazin, it is a Romanesque Revival residence modeled after Castle Karpnicki near...

S. A. Wilson Elementary School

Added by yongli on 07/06/2020 - 17:04, last changed on 07/06/2020 - 17:04
S. A. Wilson Elementary School is a midcentury school that opened in the Colorado Springs suburb of Security-Widefield in 1959. Originally built and soon expanded to help Security-Widefield accommodate a massive population increase during the decades after World War II , the school reflects one of...

Tramway Building (Hotel Teatro)

Added by yongli on 07/06/2020 - 17:00, last changed on 07/06/2020 - 17:00
Completed in 1911, the Tramway Building (1100 Fourteenth Street, Denver) consists of a striking red-and-white tower and adjacent car barn that originally served as the headquarters of the powerful Denver Tramway Company . In 1956 Tramway sold the building to the University of Colorado , which...

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