Five Points Curtis Park Denver Condos Lofts For Sale
In 1868, real estate developers Ebert and Case donated a park to the city to entice people to buy their land and build homes. They named it after Samuel Curtis, an early settler.
Downtown Denver streets follow a diagonal grid while the rest of the city’s streets follow a mostly traditional directional grid. Unusual intersections result [...]
City Park Denver Condos Lofts For Sale
Hard to believe that City Park was simple prairie covered with buffalo grass, cactus, sage brush and an occasional tree. City Park’s 320-acres were principally designed by Henry Meryweather in 1882 with design enhancements by Reinhard Schuetze in the 1900s and Saco DeBoer in the 1920s.
1896 saw the Denver Zoo begin with a single native black bear. Using [...]
Uptown Denver Condos Lofts For Sale
East and contiguous to Denver’s Central Business District you will find the North Capitol Hill neighborhood. In the 1880’s, this area was known as ”East Denver” since it was the eastern-most area of the city. When the Colorado state capitol area was developed was just south of the neighborhood, it was identified as North Capitol Hill on the city [...]
Platt Park Denver Condos Lofts For Sale
With the “e” or without the “e” — that is the question! The South Platte River is nearby and creates the confusing of Platte Park versus Platt Park. Actually, the park was named in honor of Civil War Colonel James Platt who was an area resident and businessman.
The Town of South Denver was formed in [...]
Lowry Denver Condos Lofts For Sale
The Colorado National Guard Field, opened in 1923, was renamed Lowry Field after Denver’s World War I hero Francis Lowry. The City of Denver purchased land in the area in 1932 and encouraged the U.S. Army Air Corps to open an airfield. In 1937, equipment and hangars were relocated from the National Guard airfield to the new Lowry Army [...]
Stapleton Denver Condos Lofts For Sale
The Curtiss-Humphreys Airplane Company was formed in 1919 nearby Stapleton. In 1929, the Denver Municipal Airport was opened and renamed Stapleton Airfield honoring Denver’s mayor Benjamin Stapleton in 1944.
As Denver grew, the air traffic demands grew proportionately. City planners knew that the capacity of Stapleton International Airport would be exceed and began planning its replacement. In [...]
Jefferson Park Denver Condos Lofts For Sale
In 1896, the Town of Highlands, which included the area surrounding present-day Jefferson Park, was annexed by Denver. In the early 1900s, a park was created when a former city dump site was filled and landscaped. As was the custom in the day, the park was named after a president — President Jefferson in the case of [...]
Washington Park Denver Condos Lofts For Sale
Shortly after Denver was founded in 1858, development began around a buffalo watering tank in the Washington Park area. That watering tank would become today’s Smith Lake. In 1886, Denver’s first suburb was incorporated as South Denver and included the Washington Park neighborhood.
After the 1893 Silver Crash, South Denver was annexed to Denver due to [...]
Highland LoHi Denver Condos Lofts For Sale
Highland and Lower Highland, known as LoHi, were part of the original Town of Highlands founded in 1875. Located west of the South Platte River and now Interstate-25, the Town of Highlands was situated on an elevated ridge looking down on the City of Denver. This is exactly what Denver’s wealthy families wanted — to look down [...]
Ballpark Denver Condos Lofts For Sale
Coors Field Ballpark Denver
Located on 76-acres in the Downtown Denver Ballpark neighborhood, the Coors Field baseball stadium was completed in 1995. In 2002, the Denver City Council created the Ballpark Historic District covering 20-blocks around the stadium. Very right idea.
Historically, this was an industrial area of Denver filled with storehouses and factories near the railroad [...]
