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Montclair

Added by Nick Johnson on 11/20/2022 - 09:38, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 09:40
Situated on the east side of Denver and rising some 330 feet above the State Capitol ’s gold dome, the town of Montclair was platted in 1885. The common French place-name means “clear mountain,” and Montclair was so named for its panoramic view of the Front Range between Pikes and Longs Peaks . At...

Lowry Neighborhood

Added by Nick Johnson on 11/20/2022 - 09:11, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 09:18
Located on the eastern edge of Denver , Lowry is one of the city’s newest neighborhoods but has old roots. The area was first developed in the early 1900s, when it became home to the Agnes C. Phipps Memorial Sanatorium, one of the largest of Colorado’s many tuberculosis sanitoria. With the advent...

Denver Athletic Club

Added by Nick Johnson on 11/20/2022 - 08:51, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 08:51
The Denver Athletic Club (DAC) is one of the oldest and largest private clubs in Colorado. Founded in 1884 in a rented hall in the First Baptist Church at Eighteenth and Curtis Streets, the DAC has grown into a social club as well as a place to work out. Its five-story home, first built in 1890 in...

Colorado National Bank

Added by Nick Johnson on 11/20/2022 - 08:35, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 08:42
Colorado National Bank (CNB) was founded in Denver in 1862 and managed to survive the state’s ups and downs until its 1998 sale to Minneapolis-based US Bank. The intermarried Kountze and Berger families, prominent as early Denver treasurers, civic leaders, and investors, ran the bank for most of...

Fairplay

Added by yongli on 08/24/2022 - 13:53, last changed on 11/27/2022 - 08:49
Fairplay is one of Colorado’s oldest mining and ranching towns. Situated in South Park in the mountains of central Colorado, it was part of the homelands of the Nuche or Ute people when US settlement began in 1859 during the Colorado Gold Rush . Gold seekers initially headed for Tarryall, the first...

Brush

Added by yongli on 08/24/2022 - 13:36, last changed on 11/27/2022 - 08:45
Brush is an agricultural community in Morgan County on the plains of eastern Colorado. It is located just east of Fort Morgan at the convergence of US Highway 34, US Highway 6, and State Highway 71 and is situated along the historic Texas Montana Trail. This trail allowed ranchers to graze their...

Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library

Added by yongli on 08/15/2022 - 15:58, last changed on 08/15/2022 - 16:00
The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library is located in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver . Named for Omar Blair and Elvin Caldwell , two prominent local civil rights leaders, it is the largest of Denver Public Library 's neighborhood branches and one of only five Black research...

Public Lands History Center

Added by yongli on 08/09/2022 - 15:36, last changed on 08/09/2022 - 15:38
The Public Lands History Center (PLHC) is a special unit of the History Department at Colorado State University in Fort Collins . Since 2007 it has partnered with students, communities, and land management agencies of all types to document the history of the nation’s public lands. While the PLHC’s...

Ouray (town)

Added by yongli on 08/09/2022 - 13:22, last changed on 08/27/2022 - 08:19
The town of Ouray was founded in 1875 along the Uncompahgre River near where it runs north out of the San Juan Mountains . Two years after the Nuche ( Ute ) people were dispossessed by the Brunot Agreement in 1873, prospectors found silver and later gold in the area and platted Ouray in a natural...

Creede

Added by yongli on 08/09/2022 - 13:02, last changed on 03/17/2023 - 00:40
The last of Colorado’s great silver strikes, the town of Creede boomed after its namesake, Nicholas Creede, discovered silver along Willow Creek in 1889. An estimated 10,000 people poured into the narrow valley before the Panic of 1893 sent the town into a tailspin. Once crawling with miners and a...

Lakewood

Added by yongli on 08/08/2022 - 15:38, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 22:30
Located immediately west of Denver in Jefferson County , the city of Lakewood began as a scattered farming community and was incorporated in 1969 during its post- World War II population boom. With a 2020 population of 155,984, Lakewood is now the fifth most populous city in Colorado and the third...

Fishers Peak State Park

Added by yongli on 06/13/2022 - 15:31, last changed on 11/12/2022 - 10:18
Established in 2019 as Colorado’s forty-second state park, Fishers Peak State Park covers 19,200 acres south of Trinidad near the New Mexico border. The mountainous area includes a cluster of hills and mesas that give way to the Colorado plains to the north and Raton Pass , a historic gateway to...

Colorado State Capitol

Added by yongli on 05/18/2022 - 13:35, last changed on 11/12/2022 - 09:53
Colorado’s iconic, gold-domed Capitol looks out over the city of Denver from atop Brown’s Bluff, exactly one mile above sea level. Built between 1886 and 1908, the Capitol’s exterior remains largely original, but the interior has been subject to modernization and modification. The Capitol is part...

Park Hill

Added by yongli on 05/18/2022 - 13:22, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 22:51
Named for its site on a hill overlooking City Park , the Park Hill neighborhood in northeast Denver is bounded by Colorado Boulevard, East Colfax Avenue, Quebec Street, and East Fifty-Second Avenue. The area was first platted in 1887. As Park Hill matured, its tree-lined streets, parkways, and...

Denver Center for the Performing Arts

Added by yongli on 02/15/2022 - 15:25, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 23:44
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is a theatrical organization that puts on professional productions, brings Broadway shows to Denver , and offers educational programming. Established in 1979, DCPA grew out of a Denver theatrical legacy that included the University Civic Theatre and...

Byron White US Courthouse

Added by yongli on 02/15/2022 - 14:23, last changed on 02/15/2022 - 14:23
Opened in 1916 as the main Denver Post Office and Federal Building, this four-story Greek temple (1823 Stout Street) is Colorado’s finest Neoclassical Revival structure. It represented the growing role of the federal government in a city that now has one of the largest concentrations of federal...

J. S. Brown Mercantile Building (Wynkoop Brewing Company)

Added by yongli on 02/14/2022 - 14:42, last changed on 02/14/2022 - 14:42
This five-story. red-brick building in Denver went up in 1899 for John Sidney Brown’s wholesale grocery business. Strategically located at 1634 Eighteenth Street—across Wynkoop Street from Union Station —it was next to the rail lines it depended on for customers and for shipping goods to the Rocky...

San Luis

Added by yongli on 02/11/2022 - 10:04, last changed on 01/18/2023 - 17:41
The oldest continuously occupied town in Colorado, San Luis sits along Culebra Creek, just west of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the southeast portion of the San Luis Valley . In April 1851, Hispanos from Taos, New Mexico, founded San Luis on the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant , which the Mexican...

Sangre de Cristo Land Grant

Added by yongli on 12/02/2021 - 12:49, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
The Sangre de Cristo land grant was a Mexican land grant possessed in January 1844 by Narciso Beaubien and Stephen Luis Lee. Covering almost 1.4 million acres in the San Luis Valley and Sangre de Cristo Mountains in southern Colorado, the grant gave rise to the first permanent settlement in...

Canyons of the Ancients National Monument

Added by yongli on 12/02/2021 - 11:27, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 23:39
Stretching west and northwest from Cortez to the Utah border, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument was established in 2000 and boasts the densest collection of archaeological sites in the United States. An estimated 30,000 sites—including cliff dwellings , kivas , and rock art —represent...

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