1020 15th Street Denver 2010-03-05T20:09:07Z The Old Prospector originally stood atop the seven story Mining Exchange Building to represent Denver's beginning and progress. It now stands in front of Brooks Tower and has been there for over 40 years. In 2011 the old prospector will celebrate its 120th birthday. 0 32 39.746598 -104.996603 "The Old Prospector" Brooks Tower 0 91d9045461b7e40fd4779a627a33c1324be2ed0d CO approved 2010-03-05T21:52:29Z 1 80202 Colfax Ave & Broadway Denver 2009-04-01T09:53:29Z Take a break at the intersection of 15th and Broadway, once the end of the stage line and now Civic Center Park, the heart of the city. 0 16 39.740086 -104.987536 15th & Broadway 0 15th-broadway CO approved 2009-06-12T18:04:38Z 1 931 14th Street Denver 2010-03-05T22:30:20Z Built shortly before the 1929 Crash of Wall Street, this building housed Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. Located at the corner of 14th and Curtis Street the building has recently been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In the lobby there are art deco murals depicting the history of communication painted by Colorado artist Allen True. Currently the building is home to multiple offices so access is limited. 0 34 39.745247 -104.99689 931 14th Street 1 47af038cd6b1b653aec2fd1c19df40bce4d0b4d7 CO approved 2010-03-05T22:30:29Z 1 80202 1514 Blake Street Denver 2009-07-22T18:53:49Z Due to a devastating fire that claimed many buildings in 1863, the original structure was greatly destroyed. But the basic structure of the first two stories remains as it was constructed when Barney Ford ran his restaurant. Barney L. Ford was a slave that escaped to Chicago and eventually to Denver. The Barney L. Ford building was the site in which Ford first opened his first Denver restaurant. He built the People’s Restaurant in the same place, after the great fire destroyed the first building. With a barber shop and hair salon in the basement, a restaurant on the first floor and a saloon on the second floor, the business flourished. Ford gradually established himself as a businessman and eventually progressed into being a civil rights leader and politician. 0 29 39.74968 -104.999857 Barney L. Ford Building 0 dddf54ee673540c26ab44d5eadb9c4daf4f86645 CO approved 2009-07-30T16:21:57Z 1 80202 3091 California St Denver 2009-04-01T09:53:25Z Uncover the African Americans’ dynamic role in Westward Expansion. Explore the customs, traditions, and crafts of the African American pioneers that make the colors of the West come alive—and learn and play as families did in the late 1800's. http://www.blackamericanwestmuseum.com/ 1 Tues-Sat 10am-5pm (Jun-Aug); 10am-2pm (Sept-May) 2 39.759284 -104.974522 Black American West Museum 303.482.2242 0 black-american-west-museum CO approved 2009-06-17T15:33:32Z 1 1000 Osage St. Denver 2010-03-05T18:48:15Z Denver’s original steakhouse, The Buckhorn Exchange is located in the city’s oldest neighborhood, just 5-minutes from downtown Denver -- with a light-rail stop right across the street. This National Historic Landmark and Western Museum has been serving the finest in Old West fare since 1893. http://buckhornexchange.com/ 0 Lunch 11am-2pm, Happy Hour Monday - Friday 4pm-6pm, Supper 5:30 - 9pm 31 39.732379 -105.004941 Buckhorn Exchange 303-534-9505 1 23894927a42482e4dd56cce3bf17eb3367dea866 CO approved 2010-03-05T18:48:16Z 1 80204 1310 Bannock Street Denver 2009-04-01T09:53:25Z Enter one of Denver's great historic homes, built in 1883 by Rocky Mountain News publisher Williams Byers and sold in 1889 to the family of William Gray Evans, an officer of the Denver Tramway Company. Today it is restored to reflect the period of 1912 - 1924 and reveals the personality and interests of the Evan’s family. http://www.coloradohistory.org/hist_sites/byers_evans/byers_evans.htm 1 Monday Closed; Tues-Sun 11am-3pm 3 39.737093 -104.989839 Byers-Evans House Museum 303.620.4933 0 byers-evans-house-museum CO approved 2009-06-17T18:33:56Z 1 1628 16th Street Denver 2009-07-22T18:56:20Z Chester Stephen Morey arrived in Colorado in the spring of 1872 to recover from presumably, tuberculosis. During his recovery, he started a cattle business in southern Colorado. By 1875, Morey had fully recovered and was venturing into new enterprises. Morey established the sales headquarters of a Chicago-based wholesale grocery business, the Sprague, Warner and Company, in Denver. Morey was instrumental in developing the trade west of the Missouri River for the company. Morey’s successes allowed him to accumulate wealth and enter a partnership with Sprague, Warner and Company in 1881. After having the Denver branch run under the direction and management of Morey, by 1884, the business was incorporated into the C.S. Morey Mercantile Company. Through Morey, the venture emerged to become one of the largest mercantile establishments in the West. The building that would house the successful business of Morey was deemed the most elegant “business house” in the West. Businessmen wanted aesthetically pleasing structures, because they often combined storage, production with showrooms and corporate offices. The Morey building was a prime example of this trend on “Warehouse Row”, or Wynkoop Street. After selling the Morey Company in 1956, the building now houses several businesses, including the second retail location for the Tattered Book Covered Store. 0 30 39.7514162 -105.0003 C.S. Morey Mercantile Building 0 a5903ca526f3757c8fe0b72c7a4e9e7a3853bd69 CO approved 2009-07-30T16:42:58Z 1 80202 Capitol Hill Denver 2009-06-22T20:49:08Z The streets leading in and out of Capitol Hill features familiar names. The names, Byers, Cheesman, Evans, Moffat, Boettcher and others identify the founders of Denver and represent the potential of Denver. Denver could be more than a temporary mining town. In an effort to create a notable city, the founders constructed grand homes along the streets west of Cheesman Park, all the way into Capitol Hill. In the beginning, Capitol Hill was known as Brown’s Bluff, after Henry C. Brown. Brown’s Bluff was mostly barren land with a gorgeous view of the mountains, but after Brown donated the land to construct the Colorado State Capitol, the scenery changed. Neighborhoods started to emerge and wealthy residents started to move into the city’s first suburb, Curtis Park. 0 22 39.7341143 -104.9797753 Capitol Hill 0 26a50c65bfd2993e6d87fd964d61097a96c665c6 CO approved 2009-06-22T20:49:09Z 1 8th & Gilpin St Denver 2009-04-01T09:53:27Z Take a spin around Cheesman Park, a one-time cemetery transformed into a park between 1898 and 1910, making it an important piece of the city’s landmark park system fostered by Mayor Speer beginning in 1904. 0 9 39.7291 -104.967134 Cheesman Park 0 cheesman-park CO approved 2009-06-12T18:06:34Z 1 980 Grant St Denver 2009-04-01T09:53:27Z Pull up a chair in Charlie Brown’s Bar and Grill in the Colburn Hotel, where Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady spent time in the summer of 1947, visiting Carolyn Cassady, who studied art and theatre at the University of Denver and lived at the Colburn. In fact, the photograph of Neal and Jack printed in the Denver Story Trek brochure was taken by Carolyn Cassady, who continues to own the copywrite but graciously provided her permission for its use on Story Trek. 0 11 39.731653 -104.983181 Colburn Hotel 0 colburn-hotel CO approved 2009-06-22T22:05:07Z 1 15th & Little Raven Denver 2009-04-01T09:53:29Z Stop for a coffee or to watch kayakers run the rapids along the South Platte River at Confluence Park where gold was first discovered in Denver. The area became an important crossroads for the many trails heading west. Today, REI, a large outdoor recreation store, overlooks the Park in a building that was once the power plant for the Denver Tramway Company. 0 17 39.754391 -105.006526 Confluence Park 0 confluence-park CO approved 2009-06-12T18:02:24Z 1 150 East 10th Ave Denver 2009-04-01T09:53:26Z Pass by the Crawford Hill Mansion, now a private business, to view the elegant exterior of the home of Louise Hill, Denver’s most prominent socialite from 1895 through the 1940s. 0 6 39.7320479 -104.9854907 Crawford Hill Mansion 1 crawford-hill-mansion CO approved 2009-06-10T22:26:06Z 1 16th Street and Arapahoe Street Denver 2009-07-22T17:12:32Z William B. Daniels and William Fisher opened a five-story department store in 1864. After travelling to Venice, Italy, Daniels became mesmerized by the Renaissance architecture and wanted a reminder of the beauty in Denver. He decided to build a structure modeled after the Campanile (St. Mark’s Bell Tower) at the Piazzo San Marco in Venice, Italy. Construction of the clock tower began in 1910 and finished in 1912. The tower prided itself in being the highest structure west of the Mississippi River at the time, standing at 325 feet. However, as time passed and the department store was no longer the main target of Denver’s shoppers, the store was sold to the May Company and the tower was vacated in 1958. The building of the department store and the tower were once threatened with demolition, when the Skyline Urban Renewal Project progressed in the 1960s. Preservationists managed to save and restore the clock tower but the department store vanished by 1971. The clock tower has clock faces on all four sides, with the hour hands being eight feet long and the minute hands being six feet long. A 2.5-ton bell occupies the top two floors of the building. Visitors can see today, red scars on the west side of the tower, where the tower used to be connected to the department store. 0 26 39.747927 -104.995611 Daniels and Fisher Tower 0 87d17bdb0a168a08eb6f741e6fe55e7ef54c9410 CO approved 2009-07-30T16:25:05Z 1 80202 Speer Blvd & Gilpin St Denver 2009-04-01T09:53:27Z Meander through the prestigious Denver Country Club Neighborhood. Denver prospered in the early 1900s and prominent families moved to the socially elite neighborhood of the Country Club Estates. You’ll pass Mayor Speer's house at 3rd and Humboldt. 0 8 Denver Country Club Neighborhood 1 denver-country-club-neighborhood CO approved 2009-07-22T18:11:57Z 1