Denver Landmarks & Historic Districts: A Pictorial Guide

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Conceived in gold lust and born in the course of nowhere on a cold winter day, Denver grew up on a diet of mining booms and busts. Boosters built the city all of a sudden and recklessly. With every boom in gold, silver, and oil, Denverites tore down “out of date buildings” to construct their own grand new monuments. Denver used to be stripped of its architectural past as every generation demolished the work of its predecessors.

Not until the 1960s did Denverites, alarmed by wholesale urban-renewal demolitions and a new building boom, convince the mayor and city council to form the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission to identify and preserve an important landmarks.

Denver Landmarks & Historical Districts: A Pictorial Guide is the most recent, most thorough guide to Denver’s 250 landmarks and 28 historic districts established since 1967. This lavishly illustrated volume celebrates Denver’s oldest banks, churches, clubs, hotels, libraries, schools, restaurants, mansions, and show homes. Many of these landmarks, both well known and difficult to understand, are open to the public.

Entries include the Daniels & Fisher Tower, Elitch’s Theater, structures within the city’s parks, the Denver Press Club, the Denver Athletic Club, a tiny Five Points black mortuary that became a Hispanic pool hall, the most notorious house of unwell repute, the enormous Hanger #1 at Lowry Airy Force Base, and a lot more.

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