The Denver Tramway Company’s final street car — Streetcar No. 4 — clanged to a stop on July 3, 1950, and now, nearly seventy years later, the City of Arvada and the Arvada Historical Society want to restore it and display it near the city’s Gold Line transit station. It…
A pair of massive high rises towering 32 stories over a neighborhood of modest homes in Wash Park West reached another construction milestone during a recent “topping off” ceremony in which the final beam, signed by those attending the event, was lifted into place.
An old mercantile building in Yampa that was on the verge of collapse is set to partially reopen as a town hall and visitors’ center sometime later this year thanks to efforts by a group of residents bent on saving the building. Crossan’s M&A Market, built in 1903, is an…
Two years after it was acquired for back taxes by Gilpin County, the historic Belvidere Theatre in Central City is entering the second phase of its restoration. The structure, built in 1875 at the south end of Main Street in Central City’s National Historic Landmark District, was listed in 2016…
The project could be completed by 2022. But at 11,003 feet, the construction season for the project is short.
Over the last year, Historic Fraser Inc. has raised more than $50,000 to restore the historic 4 Bar 4 Ranch in Grand County.
When renovations to the historic Molly Brown House are completed this spring, the building’s basement will open to the public for the first time.
Joel Bryant is exploring what it would take to open a full-service restaurant in the Lumber Baron Inn, the bed and breakfast in Denver’s Potter Highlands neighborhood he purchased last year for $1.7 million.
When Wade Murphy and his partners in Archetype Holdings bought the decrepit building at 119 South Broadway that had most recently been home to Kitty’s South, they applied to have the building declared non-historic — but also promised to save what could be saved of the hundred-year-old structure, with hopes…
The final phase of a $3.3 million renovation to the former Emerson School is wrapping up. Now known as the Frank B. McGlone Center, the 20,000-square-foot building at 1420 Ogden Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood was donated to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2010 by Capitol Hill…
The Turing School of Software & Design spent eight months looking for space to house the 500 students who enroll in its program annually before finding suitable digs in the basement of the Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. building at 1331 17th Street in lower downtown. “I thought it might…
A shiny new hotel will be built around one of Denver’s oldest landmarks, the Denver Hose Company No. 1, located at 20th Street and Chestnut Place. Pending approval from the Denver Landmark Preservation Committee, the Hose Company No. 1 building will be restored into a restaurant. It’s part of a…
SugarSquare will serve as an office building and connect to the historic Sugar Building.
After three decades in lower downtown, McCormick’s Fish House has closed in the Oxford Hotel. It will become an Urban Farmer, run by Sage Restaurant Group.
Oskar Blues is expanding to Colorado Springs with the opening of a new restaurant, music venue and taproom in the historic DeGraff Building at 118 North Tejon Street. The four-story masonry building was constructed in 1897, restored in 1982 and then home to Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom for 33…
With the Maven hotel opening in March, the historic Windsor Dairy Block is poised to become LoDo’s next go-to destination for shopping and dining. The 172-room hotel at 18th and Wazee streets will become the fourth independent hotel in Sage Hospitality’s Denver portfolio, joining the Crawford Hotel at Union Station,…
An old barn just outside of Pueblo that appears to be on the verge of collapse has been shored up.
More than fifty years after she saved one of the oldest blocks in Denver and created Larimer Square, her first adventure in historic preservation, 85-year-old Dana Crawford is staking claims in two mining towns: Trinidad and Idaho Springs. After five decades in the development business, Crawford was initially reluctant to…
More than half of the condos being built in the former El Jebel Shrine in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood have been sold — and the project won’t be completed until the end of next summer. Renamed Mirador at Tennyson, the building itself, being redeveloped by Confluence Companies, will have 24 condos…
The nonprofit private university recently announced that it would no longer accept new students and plans to close the school at the end of 2017.
Gart Bros. bought the property in 1971 and dubbed it the “Sportscastle” — a name that changed over the years to “Sports Castle” — and filled the 100,000-square-foot space with skis, sneakers, tennis racquets, golf clubs and basketballs.
In a victory for proponents of property rights, the Denver City Council on Monday, November 21, rejected historic designation for Judith Battista’s Jefferson Park home.
