Historic Buildings

Photos: Civic Center Park is commemorated as a national historic landmark

Mayor Michael Hancock joined state and national representatives yesterday in a ceremony inside the McNichols building to reveal plaques that commemorate Civic Center's new status as a national historic landmark. That honor is determined by the National Park Service and given to areas or buildings th ... More >>

Denver's Civic Center named a national landmark

It wasn't long ago that Denver planners had the crackpot idea of putting a new Colorado history museum underground in Civic Center Park, right by the McNichols building, once a Carnegie library. Cooler heads put the kibosh on that. And now Denver's Civic Center has been designated a National Histori ... More >>

Croke-Patterson Mansion turns into Patterson Inn

The Croke-Patterson Mansion is a historic gem, with official designation from the Landmark Preservation Commission, Colorado State Register of Historic Properties, and the National Register of Historic Places. And new owners are ready to add a new chapter in that history, opening the building as the ... More >>

From the Archives: St. Cajetan's Church barely escaped demolition

Auraria has been around for a long time -- longer than Colorado has been an actual state -- but it's changed quite a bit since 1858. It started out as Auraria Township, a pioneer settlement that served as a popular destination during the gold rush; the root of the name comes from the Latin word for ... More >>

Bastien's taking a Fourth of July vacation next week

If you've been looking forward to a sizzling sugar steak to kick off this year's Independence Day, you'll have to reschedule. Bastien's Restaurant, a Denver's Best Low-End Steakhouse winner and 2010's Best Addition to the National Register of Historic Places, will be closed all next week.

Civic Center Park will be open and fenceless by mid-August

They're getting close! Updates to Civic Center Park have shuttered many of its features for months as crews repair work funded by $9.5 million from the Denver Better Bond Project. Surrounded by fences, the park closed to the public in March and partially re-opened in April, and now there's an end in ... More >>

Civic Center in the running to become a national historic landmark

Within the next three to nine months, Denver's Civic Center could become the city's first national historic landmark. Earlier this week, Mayor Michael Hancock testified at a National Park System advisory board meeting in favor of the area's qualification of the honor, which will move to the National ... More >>

Mayor's Design Award honors a very new building on a very old block -- Stoneman's Row

​"What is that thing at the end of your block?" For the last year, that's been a regular query from people heading to Highland -- from I-25, from Speer Boulevard, from 15th Street -- who inevitably catch sight of the imposing structure that now stands at the edge of the bluff overlooking the h ... More >>

Are homeowners on Clarkson getting zapped by Denver zoning?

10 reasons why Lakewood was named an All-American City (PHOTOS)

Big pics below.​Lakewood was just named one of ten All-America Cities -- a designation well worth celebrating. However, the community's Facebook page could do a better job of horn-tooting. In fact, its profile photos don't even feature the city, and other shots are pretty hit and miss. Luckily ... More >>

Southwest Denver basement home historic district proposal: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology

College View: House looks like a dragon.​ The basement house pictured above is one of the few remaining examples of a historic architectural style that proliferated in southwest Denver for a brief time after World War 2. In this side view, the house looks like a dragon, with the head and neck ... More >>

The War Next Door

Rich in history and imperiled species, Pinon Canyon isn't like any other place on earth. Locals fear that the Army wants to tear the hell out of it.

Camp Amache's John Hopper, teacher profiled in Westword, honored by History Colorado

Camp Amache in 40s.​"Forward Into the Past, a feature story from the September 13, 2001 issue of Westword, told the tale of teacher John Hopper's historical journey. This trek resulted in Hopper being honored with the History Colorado Presidents Award last night at the Colorado Historical Soci ... More >>

John Hickenlooper: The beer-flavored lesson for Colorado from Phantom Canyon Brewing Co.

Hickenlooper.​Beer was flowing (figuratively, at least) when John Hickenlooper offered his first address to the Colorado Legislature yesterday and told the story of a brewpub. Not the Denver-centric story of the Wynkoop Brewing Co., the iconic LoDo spot, but a venture that grew out of that pro ... More >>

Downtown Denver: Celebrate something old, something new at the Four Seasons Hotel today

​Against all odds, Denver has a vibrant downtown that weds the present with the past -- and today, it celebrates both something old and something new, starting with a ribbon-cutting at the Four Seasons Hotel Denver at 1111 14th Street.

Denver Landmark Preservation Commission's delisting of 1888 bungalow leads to destruction

​At this moment, I would be watching the sun come up -- but my view to the east is blocked by a huge construction project, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. I'm not complaining -- the old tree that used to be on that lot blocked my view, too, until the new owners cho ... More >>

National Trust for Historic Preservation reveals its plans to restore the historic Emerson School

​On Thursday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that it plans to transform the 1885 Emerson School in the Capitol Hill neighborhood into a model for greening historical buildings.

Western-fetish enthusiasts excited by historic Denver events: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology

Click image to enlarge.​ Figure 74. Rosedale: Wrought up in the west. On the occasion of Historic Denver's 40th Anniversary, it is only fitting to recognize that preservation is an unnatural human desire in which an abnormal degree of gratification is linked to a particular object from the re ... More >>

Terror Mom rap terrorizes Leadville

​Leadville has a long, colorful history. Colorful enough even without the latest colorful chapter: the much-publicized arrest in Ireland of Leadville-come-lately resident Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old blond, single mom whose own mother -- also a recent addition to the Leadville lineup -- ... More >>

Steven Turner leaves Historic Denver behind

House Party!

The Governor’s Mansion looks very good for a hundred-year-old.

Hangar 61

Saved by Colorado Preservation

Home, Sweet Home

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 4/5/07

The Rest Is History

Take a trip back in time to Silver Plume.

A House Divided

Black Hawk plays the Lace card.

Mind and Matter

Art and physics at the Mizel Center, plus a salute to the late Barbara Sudler Hornby.

Artbeat

Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

Artbeat

Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

Fit to Be Tied

Fetish ball whips up tricks and treats

Best Scenic Hardware Store That Sells Food

Kneisel & Anderson Grocery and Hardware

Drink of the Week

Cascade Cocktail

Best Old-Time Melodrama

Don't Shoot the Piano Player

Forward Into the Past

At Camp Amache, a school project reopens an ugly chapter of Colorado history.

Best Porn Store in a Historic Building

Diamond Lil's

Best Protector of Downtown Denver

Kathleen Brooker

Looking Up, Downtown

Historic Denver puts together an unlikely alliance to save some of the city's coolest buildings.

Against the Grain

Architecturally speaking, Denver is getting uglier by the minute.

Building For the Future

David Owen Tryba has designs on Denver--and looks to its past for inspiration.

Post Mortem

Eve of Destruction

The old Post building is threatened with bulldozing.

Black Hawk's History? It's History.

Off Limits

Can't Lick 'Em

Like it or not, the mountain town of Ward is getting a new post office.

Death of a Salesroom

Edifice Wreck

How tarnished a gem is the decrepit Evans School?

LOST AND FOUND

RUBBLE'S BACK IN TOWN

THE RAZING OF A BUILDING ON 17TH STREET WORRIES PRESERVATIONISTS.

THE ZECKENDORF FOLLIES

RAZING HELL

CURTIS PARK RESIDENTS FEAR DEMOLITION OF SOME VICTORIAN STRUCTURES.