Historic Denver's offices have moved.
We are now in the Tattered Cover Building
1628 16th Street, Suite 200
Denver, CO 80202
303-534-5288
Fax: 303-534-5296

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Historic Denver would like to thank the following organizations for their generous support of this Web site and our preservation efforts.

Colorado Historical Society
This project was paid
for in part by a State Historical Fund grant from the Colorado Historical Society. The contents and opinions contained herein do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Colorado Historical Society.

Founded in 1879, the Colorado Historical Society brings the unique character of Colorado's past to more than a million people each year through historical museums and highway markers, exhibitions, manuscript and photograph collections, popular and scholarly publications, historical and archaeological preservation services, and educational programs for children and adults. In short, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets the history of Colorado for present and future generations. A nonprofit agency with its own membership, the Society is also a state institution located within Colorado's Department of Higher Education.

Denver Public Library
The Denver Public Library (DPL) is the information resource for the people of Denver and the greater metro area. It also acts as the official Resource Center for the state of Colorado and is a regional depository for publications of the U.S. government. The Library is world renowned for its collection of western Americana and its model Children's Library. Customers are served from a spectacular Central Library designed by celebrated architect Michael Graves, 22 branch libraries and a Bookmobile.

The art used at the top of these Web pages was painted by Herndon Davis, and was generously provided by the The Photography Collection at the Western/Genealogy Department at the Denver Public Library. For information about how to purchase prints of this art, click here.

Scientific & Cultural Facilities District
In 1988, greater Denver metropolitan area voters created the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) to provide a consistent source of unrestricted funding to scientific and cultural organizations. Since then, the SCFD has funded over 300 organizations via the 0.1% retail sales and use tax (a penny on every $10). And the SCFD is a great value! In 2000, the average per capita SCFD tax collection was $14.58.

The SCFD facilitates the annual distribution of $38 million in tax funds to organizations that provide for the enlightenment and entertainment of the public through the production, preservation, exhibition, advancement or preservation of art, music, theater, dance, zoology, botany, natural history or cultural history.