Emily Griffith Opportunity School
Preserving & Protecting a Legacy- the former Emily Griffith Opportunity School For 100 years the buildings at 12th & Welton Street were home to the Emily Griffith Opportunity School- the influential and pioneering legacy of an educator determined to create opportunity for all Denverites. When the Emily Griffith programs, both secondary and the technical college,…
16th Street Mall- Public Art of the Highest Calibre
Concerning Changes to the 16th Street Mall Opened in 1982, the 16th Street Mall is among the most iconic places in Denver, recognized for its high quality design, enduring materials, and value as a civic space. Officially recognized as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places due to the exceptional caliber of its design…
La Alma Lincoln Park Historic Cultural District
Denver’s First Historic Cultural District to Honor the Chicano/a Movement On August 2, 2021, Denver City Council designated the La Alma Lincoln Park Historic Cultural District, recognizing the historic and cultural significance of the neighborhood in Denver’s Chicano movement. https://youtu.be/hD0qaCXpzdU Why It Matters La Alma Lincoln Park is not only one of Denver’s oldest residential…
East 7th Avenue & Judge Raymond Jones
East 7th Avenue- Steele Street Extension Protects Judge Raymond Jones Home As the pandemic raged in 2020 and 2021 residents of the 600 and 700 blocks of Steele Street talked on Zoom, on porches, and on-line about pursuing a small historic district designation, just two blocks long and immediately adjacent to the existing East 7th…
The Robinson House: 3435 Albion
The Effort to Save one of Park Hill’s Oldest Homes In April 2022, Denver City Council unanimously made the 1889 Queen Anne house at 3435 Albion St. a local landmark, protecting it from demolition. The designation followed a year of uncertainty for the building, known as the Robinson House, during which Historic Denver helped to…
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access
On March 25th, 2021 Historic Denver’s board and staff came together for a special session dedicated to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access. The meeting was the culmination of six months of work by a board task force convened to dive deeper into this work, its intersection with historic preservation and historical interpretation, and to make…
Chicano/a/x Mural Preservation Action Fund Project
Denver murals named to list of most endangered historic places in America In 2018 Historic Denver began a partnership with Chicano/a/x Murals of Colorado Project (CMCP) to help preserve murals important to Denver’s cultural heritage. Supported through Historic Denver’s Action Fund, phase one implementation of this project will focus on preserving four of the earliest…
Former Colorado Women’s College Campus
Treat Hall, now know as Centennial Hall, was fully rehabilitated by JWU and is now protected by an easement held by Historic Denver. 110-Year-Old Campus has New Owners On the eastern edge of Park Hill, on what was once the vast open prairie, sits a campus that has endured ups and downs and served generations…
Burnham Yard
Interior of Machine Shop 5. A Unique, Industrial Historic Site Situated in an industrial corridor near the South Platte River and 1-25, the Burnham Yard property recently changed hands following more than a century of ownership by major railroads. Full plans for the site and its historic buildings are not yet developed. Historic Denver hopes…
Denver’s East Central Area Plan
East Area Plan Projects Vision for Six Core Neighborhoods In 2018, Denver City Council adopted an update to Blueprint Denver, a citywide land use and transportation plan. As follow-up, the City Planning Office is now creating plans for collections of neighborhoods across Denver through a process called the Neighborhood Planning Initiative. The East Central Area…