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Colfax Avenue is the main street that runs east–west through the Denver metropolitan area in Colorado. As U.S. Highway 40, it was one of two principal highways serving Denver before the Interstate Highway System was constructed. In the local street system, it lies 15 blocks north of the zero meridian (Ellsworth Avenue, one block south of 1st ...
As Denver's population expanded rapidly, many old buildings were torn down to make way for new housing projects. The Denver Urban Renewal Authority demolished block after block to make room for apartments and parking lots. Many of Denver's finest buildings from the frontier era were demolished, including the Tabor Opera House, as the city ...
Dana Hudkins Crawford. Dana Hudkins Crawford (born July 22, 1931) is an American architectural conservation developer and preservationist working in Denver, Colorado. She has been involved in almost every renovation project in downtown Denver, from the initial designation of the LoDo District and creation of Larimer Square to the Union Station.
Casper R. Hartman was the first speculator to purchase land in what is now Park Hill. [2] After building a freighting business between Denver and St. Joseph Missouri, [3] Hartman built a livery stable in West Denver, [4] and in 1871 purchased the roughly 140 acre area [5] bounded by Colorado/McKinley Ave. to the west, Montview Blvd. to the north, Dahlia/Caribou St. to the east, and Colfax Ave ...
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States [1]) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. [2] Urban renewal involves the clearing out of blighted areas in inner cities in favour of new housing, businesses, and other developments.
96000165 [1] Added to NRHP. February 23, 1996. The First National Bank Building, also known as the American National Bank of Denver, Colorado was originally built as the headquarters building in 1911. [2] Located at the corner of 17th and Stout Streets, [3] it is now the Magnolia Hotel. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
1978-01-09. The Denver Dry Goods Company Building is a historic department store building located in downtown Denver, Colorado. For a while, the store was claimed to be the largest department store west of Chicago. A description on one postcard from 1916 read: "The Largest Store in the Central West, 400 Feet long-Seven Acres Floor Area, 1,200 ...
Denver Urban Spectrum (est. 1987) is a newspaper in Denver, Colorado. Founded by Rosalind "Bee" Harris , describes themselves as filling a gap in the market for positive news stories by and about people of color.