Denver Landmarks And Historic Districts

Author : Thomas J. Noel
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781607324225

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Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts by Thomas J. Noel Pdf

A Timberline Book Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts, Second Edition is the newest, most thorough guide to Denver’s 51 historic districts and more than 331 individually landmarked properties. This lavishly illustrated volume celebrates Denver’s oldest banks, churches, clubs, hotels, libraries, schools, restaurants, mansions, and show homes. Denver is unusually fortunate to retain much of its significant architectural heritage. The Denver Landmark Preservation Commission (1967), Historic Denver, Inc. (1970), Colorado Preservation, Inc. (1984), and History Colorado (1879) have all worked to identify and preserve Denver buildings notable for architectural, geographical, or historical significance. Since the 1970s, Denver has designated more landmarks than any other US city of comparable size. Many of these landmarks, both well-known and obscure, are open to the public. These landmarks and districts have helped make Denver one of the healthiest and most attractive core cities in the United States, transforming what was once Skid Row into the Lower Downtown Historic District of million-dollar lofts and $7 craft beers. Entries include the Daniels & Fisher Tower, the Brown Palace Hotel, Red Rocks Outdoor Amphitheatre, Elitch Theatre, Fire Station No. 7, the Richthofen Castle, the Washington Park Boathouse and Pavilion, and the Capitol Hill, Five Points, and Highlands historic districts. Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts highlights the many officially designated buildings and neighborhoods of note. This crisply written guide serves as a great starting point for rubbernecking around Denver, whether by motor vehicle, by bicycle, or afoot.

Author : Thomas J. Noel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806153537

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Colorado by Thomas J. Noel Pdf

This is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, this new edition features thirty new chapters, updated text, more than 100 color maps and 100 color photos, and a best-of listing of Colorado authors and books, as well as a guide to hundreds of tourist attractions. Colorado received its name (Spanish for “red”) after much debate and many possibilities, including Idaho (an “Indian” name meaning “gem of the mountains” later discovered to be a fabrication) and Yampa (Ute for “bear”). Noel includes other little-known but significant facts about the state, from its status as first state in the Union to elect women to its legislature, to its controversial “highest state” designation, elevated by the 2013 legalization of recreational cannabis. Noel and cartographer Carol Zuber-Mallison map and describe Colorado’s spectacular geography and its fascinating past. The book’s eight parts survey natural Colorado, from rivers and mountains to dinosaurs and mammals; history, from prehistoric peoples to twenty-first-century Color-oddities; mining and manufacturing, from the gold rush to alternative energy sources; agriculture, including wineries and brewpubs; transportation, from stagecoach lines to light rail; modern Colorado, from the New Deal to the present (including politics, history, and information on lynchings, executions, and prisons); recreation, covering not only hiking and skiing but also literary locales and Colorado in the movies; and tourism, encompassing historic landmarks, museums, and even cemeteries. In short, this book has information—and surprises—that anyone interested in Colorado will relish.

Author : Nancy L. Widmann,Denver Landmark Preservation Commission (Denver, Colo.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:45078484

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The Baker Historic District by Nancy L. Widmann,Denver Landmark Preservation Commission (Denver, Colo.) Pdf

Author : Judy Mattivi Morley
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700617609

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Historic Preservation and the Imagined West by Judy Mattivi Morley Pdf

Stroll through Larimer Square in Denver or through Pioneer Square in Seattle and you feel that you're stepping into history while browsing the expensive boutiques and tourist shops. But are you? In this intriguing study of some of America's favorite places, Judy Morley takes a fresh look at adaptive reuse efforts in cities of the former frontier. Focusing on urban preservation resulting from the competing interests of architectural preservationists, city planners, chambers of commerce, and boosters, she shows how developers have often taken artistic license to refashion the western past into shopping centers and tourist traps-in ways that privilege an imagined "heritage" over a more complex history. Examining Old Town Albuquerque, Larimer Square and LoDo in Denver, and Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market in Seattle, Morley describes the creation and marketing of western heritage under the guise of historic preservation. She draws on extensive interviews, city council proceedings, and historic plats and photographs to construct a detailed picture of how these districts originally looked and were used, how they were renovated, and to what ends they were marketed. This is the first book to systematically address issues of historic preservation and western urban growth, examining the interplay of identity, preservation, and tourism. It identifies the economic, political, and social issues that transformed each historic district into a place that resonated with the popular imagination. Along the way, Morley exposes the ironies that have attracted criticism to historic districts, such as Old Town Albuquerque's celebration of Hispanic heritage-even though Hispanic residents were displaced during the renovation-or Larimer Square's hiding of its actual skid-row past beneath a veneer of more tourist-friendly history. But while critics charge that historic preservation often celebrates a sanitized past, Morley suggests that these locales offer both residents and visitors a window on a shared romantic history and a sense of belonging, serving as vital locations for community festivals, holiday events, and even public gatherings in times of tragedy. Historic Preservation and the Imagined West argues that, although these districts did not so much preserve history as create mythic identities for their cities, they have in their way reconciled the past with the needs of the future.

Author : Mark Barnhouse
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467142120

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History Lover's Guide to Denver, A by Mark Barnhouse Pdf

Founded in an unlikely spot where dry prairies meet formidable mountains, Denver overcame its doubtful beginning to become the largest and most important city within a thousand miles. This tour of the Queen City of the Plains goes beyond travel guidebooks to explore its fascinating historical sites in detail. Tour the grand Victorian home where the unsinkable Molly Brown lived prior to her Titanic voyage. Visit the Brown Palace Hotel suite that President Dwight and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower used as the "Summer White House." Pay respects at the mountaintop grave of the greatest showman of the nineteenth century, Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. From the jazzy Rossonian lounge where Ella scatted and Basie swung to gleaming twenty-first-century art museums, author Mark A. Barnhouse traces the Mile High City's story through its historical legacy.

Author : Steve Fisher
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781614238287

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A Brief History of South Denver & University Park by Steve Fisher Pdf

University Park was founded in the 1880s when the University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) moved from downtown Denver to land donated by potato farmer Rufus Clark. The University, founded by Methodists, wanted to escape the urban blight of the city and build an oasis for education. Liquor production or consumption was not allowed, and though today the area has many pubs a number of home mortgages to this day contain old covenants forbidding the making or selling of spirits. Around University Park grew the town of South Denver, which was annexed to the city of Denver in the early twentieth century. For many years in the late 1800s the primary employer was the University of Denver, but over time others moved into the area for its attractive homes and well respected schools. The area has traditionally been upper middle class and has enjoyed one of the lowest crime rates in the city. At the geographic center of University Park is Observatory Park, named for the famous Chamberlain Observatory, built in the 1890s and still fully operational with popular public viewing nights. In the early part of the century Colorado Governor Henry Buchtel lived in the park, as did a number of famed early DU faculty such as Ammi Hyde, who beat the freshman boys in an annual foot race well into his 90's. The area boomed after World War II as many from other parts of the country who were stationed in Colorado chose to remain and make it their home. The area has remained prosperous and continues to grow, sharing in the overall success that the Denver metro area has experienced.

Author : Amy B. Zimmer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781467130585

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Denver's Historic Homes by Amy B. Zimmer Pdf

Images of America: Denver s Historic Homes provides a mere introduction into the myriad of architectural styles and the unique blending of cultures that have made the Rocky Mountain region so remarkable, from the city s inception as a mining claim to what it has become today. From itinerantly used sod and log homes to mansions that rivaled the grandest of their period, Denver s eclectic gathering of early residents produced a landscape of architectural monuments that attest to the people s needs, desires, values, and occasional eccentricities."

Author : Stephen J. Leonard,Thomas J. Noel
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874170030

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A Short History of Denver by Stephen J. Leonard,Thomas J. Noel Pdf

A Short History of Denver covers more than 150 years of Denver’s rich history. The book recounts the takeover of Native American lands, the founding of small towns on the South Platte River at the base of the Rocky Mountains, and the creation of a city, which by 1890 was among the nation’s major western urban centers. Leonard and Noel tell the stories of powerful economic and political leaders such as John Evans, Horace Tabor, and David Moffat, and delve into the contributions of women, including Elizabeth Byers and Margaret (Molly) Brown. The book also recognizes the importance of the city’s ethnic communities, including African Americans, Asians, Latinos, and many others. A Short History of Denver portrays the city’s twentieth-century ups and downs, including the City Beautiful movement, political corruption, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Here readers will find the meat and potatoes of economic and political history and much more, including sports history, social history, and the history of metropolitan-wide efforts to preserve the past.

Author : Thomas Jacob Noel
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Colorado
ISBN : 1565794931

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Guide to Colorado Historic Places by Thomas Jacob Noel Pdf

Since 1991, the Colorado Historical Society has supported the restoration of the state's most significant sites through the State Historical Fund. Thanks to the SHF, more than 600 building, sites, and districts all over the state have been restored and preserved for gernerations to come. Complete with the stories behind the sites and their restoration, this comprehensive guidebook takes you to Colorado's most historic locations and chronicles the efforts to save them.

Author : Amy B. Zimmer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738571563

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Denver's Capitol Hill Neighborhood by Amy B. Zimmer Pdf

When Henry Cordes Brown donated a parcel of his land in 1868 as a location for a future state capitol, no one could imagine what a thriving neighborhood the area around "Brown's Bluff" would become. Twenty years later, Capitol Hill would grow into the city's most fashionable residential district. Through the years, Capitol Hill evolved, seeing everything from millionaire's row to skid row, and remains today one of Denver's most diverse and intriguing neighborhoods. Not only is the area home to Colorado's government, but it also contains some of the city's most remarkable architecture. More than that, however, the history of Capitol Hill is filled with memorable people, places, and stories.

Author : Mark A. Barnhouse
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439673942

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Vanished Denver Landmarks by Mark A. Barnhouse Pdf

From its 1858 birth, the Mile High City has undergone continuous change, with each successive generation putting its stamp on Denver's architectural character. Along the way, landmarks initially considered first class were later deemed disposable by those who had different visions of what Denver should be. Beloved buildings like the Tabor Grand Opera House, the Windsor Hotel and the Republic Building vanished. Historian Mark A. Barnhouse revisits these lost treasures along with the lesser known and rarely explored, including an apartment building dubbed "Denver's Bohemia," the humble abode of one of the early twentieth century's most successful novelists and the opulent mansion of a man who gave Denver three consecutive baseball championships.

Author : Thomas J. Noel,Carl Abbott,Stephen J. Leonard
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781457109553

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Colorado: A History of the Centennial State, Fourth Edition by Thomas J. Noel,Carl Abbott,Stephen J. Leonard Pdf

Since 1976 newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In this revised edition, co-authors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate more than a decade of new events, findings, and insights about Colorado in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy. The fourth edition tells of conflicts, new alliances, and changing ways of life as Hispanic, European, and African American settlers flooded into a region that was already home to Native Americans. Providing balanced coverage of the entire state's history - from Grand Junction to Lamar and from Trinidad to Craig - the authors also reveal how Denver and its surrounding communities developed and gained influence. While continuing to elucidate the significant impact of mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism on Colorado, this edition broadens its coverage. The authors expand their discussion of the twentieth century with several new chapters on the economy, politics, and cultural conflicts of recent years. In addition, they address changes in attitudes toward the natural environment as well as the contributions of women, Hispanics, African Americans, and Asian Americans to the state. Dozens of new illustrations, updated statistics, and an extensive bibliography of the most recent research on Colorado history enhance this edition.

Author : Mark A. Barnhouse
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439665855

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Lost Department Stores of Denver by Mark A. Barnhouse Pdf

Denverites once enjoyed a retail landscape rich with personal touches. Revisit May-D&F's animated holiday windows or the ice skating rink in front of the store. Reminisce about the Christmas chandeliers that stretched for four hundred feet on the main floor of the Denver Dry Goods or the elegance of Neusteters, with its fashion shows and exclusive merchandise. Recall finding that perfect outfit at Fashion Bar and going back-to-school shopping at Joslins. Celebrate salespeople who remembered your name and the comforting feeling of shopping locally where your parents and grandparents shopped. Through decades of research and interviews with former staff, Denver's unofficial "department store historian" Mark Barnhouse assembles the ultimate mosaic of the Mile High City's fabulous retail past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : UIUC:30112122616797

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Community Preservation Series: Landmark and historic district designation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ethan Blue
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520304444

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The Deportation Express by Ethan Blue Pdf

Introduction : the roots and routes of American deportation -- Building the deportation state -- Eastbound -- Westbound.