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Berthoud

Berthoud is a semirural town south of Loveland in both Larimer and Weld Counties. It started in the early 1860s as Little Thompson Station, a stagecoach stop near the Little Thompson River about halfway between Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Denver on the Cherokee and Overland Trails. Berthoud was...

Denver Zoo

The Denver Zoo started in 1896 with a single bear in City Park and has grown to an eighty-acre campus. There are 350 employees overseeing a total of about 3,700 animals from more than 600 species. The zoo draws more than 2 million visitors per year, making it one of Colorado’s most popular cultural...

Colorado History Museum

The Colorado History Museum, the second major home of the Colorado Historical Society (now History Colorado ), opened in 1977 to replace the Colorado State Museum (1915). Located on the south side of Civic Center in Denver , the modern museum was three times as large as the old State Museum,...

St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral

St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral (1350 Washington Street, Denver ) was the first Episcopal congregation in Colorado and serves as the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado. The 1911 cathedral is a fine example of the Late English Gothic style, and the entire cathedral complex occupies a full...

Paramount Theater

The Paramount Theater (1621 Glenarm Place, Denver ) is the best-known Art Deco design of architect Temple Hoyne Buell . Buell created this 1930 palace as the most ornate of all Colorado movie theaters and a gem in the coast-to-coast chain of exuberant movie houses planted by Paramount Publix. Like...

History Colorado Center

The History Colorado Center (1200 Broadway, Denver ) opened in 2012 as the headquarters, museum, and research center of History Colorado . Established in 1879 as the State Historical and Natural History Society, History Colorado had outgrown a succession of previous buildings, including the State...

East High School

Built in 1925, East High School (1545 Detroit Street, Denver ) is a public school that exemplifies the City Beautiful Movement ’s dedication to placing schools in generous park-like settings and making them lessons in distinctive design. East is prominently situated south of City Park along the...

Tivoli Brewery

Constructed in 1864, the Tivoli Brewery in Denver was the first brewery built in Colorado and the second in the nation. Over the course of its complex history, the brewery changed hands multiple times until it was abandoned in 1969. The Tivoli building became part of the Auraria Higher Education...

Grand Junction Indian Boarding School

The Grand Junction Indian School opened its doors to students in 1886 as the seventh school in the federal off-reservation residential boarding school system for Indigenous youth. The Grand Junction campus was the first boarding school in the mountain west and began operating just four years after...

Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP)

The Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP) is Colorado’s original and largest public psychiatric institution. It has a long and complicated history of housing and rehabilitating adults and children living with mental illness, physical and developmental disabilities, neurological...

Denver Public Library

The Denver Public Library, located in downtown Denver , is a cultural hub and valuable resource for the Denver metro area. Begun in the early 1860s, the library collections have grown with Denver, moving from “Old Main,” the Carnegie-funded structure in Civic Center Park , to their current location...

Salida

Salida is a city of about 6,000 in the Upper Arkansas River valley, surrounded by Colorado’s central Rocky Mountains . It is the county seat of Chaffee County . Salida is named for the Spanish word for “exit,” as it is located near the mouth of a canyon of the Arkansas River. Major thoroughfares...

Glenwood Springs

Glenwood Springs is a mountain resort community 150 miles west of Denver , at the confluence of the Colorado and Roaring Fork Rivers on Colorado’s Western Slope . It is the seat of Garfield County and has a population of nearly 10,000. The city is known for its hot springs as well as for outdoor...

Auraria (West Denver)

Now home to the tri-institutional campus of Metropolitan State University of Denver , University of Colorado–Denver , and Community College of Denver , the Auraria neighborhood has a long and rich history predating the founding of Denver itself. Auraria is bordered by the South Platte River to the...

Montrose

The city of Montrose lies in the heart of the Uncompahgre Valley on Colorado’s Western Slope , about sixty miles southeast of Grand Junction and sixty-three miles east of the Utah border. With a population of about 20,000, it is the county seat and largest city in Montrose County . Montrose’s main...

Crawford and Louise Hill Mansion

Built in 1905–6, the Crawford and Louise Hill Mansion at the corner of Tenth Avenue and Sherman Street in Denver stands as one of three remaining mansions from the affluent neighborhood that occupied the Sherman-Grant Historic District prior to the construction of apartment buildings (known as “...

Denver Country Club

Established in 1887, the Denver Country Club is one of the oldest, most exclusive private social clubs in the West. The 1904 clubhouse and its surrounding 142 acres of landscaping are significant features in the city of Denver , situated along Cherry Creek between the Country Club , Cherry Creek ,...

Country Club Historic District

Denver ’s Country Club Historic District has been one of the most prestigious and exclusive neighborhoods in Colorado for more than a century. Originally developed in conjunction with the Denver Country Club , which opened just to the south in 1904, the district contains 380 residences and has...

Scientific and Cultural Facilities District

The Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) is a metropolitan district that generates funding for nonprofit arts and culture organizations across Denver , Boulder , Adams , Arapahoe , Jefferson , Douglas , and Broomfield Counties through a 0.1 percent sales tax. Devised in the mid-1980s...

Western History and Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library

The Denver Public Library (DPL) has one of the nation’s largest and finest collections on the history of the American West. Created in 1935, the collection continues to grow and currently includes more than 250,000 cataloged books, architectural records, atlases, pamphlets, and microform titles, as...

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