The Rocky Mountain Cliff May Homes are a development of 170 mid-century modern prefabricated and modular post-and-beam tract homes built between 1954-56 in Denver's Harvey Park Neighborhood on the 2300-2500 blocks of South Lowell Blvd, South Meade Street, South Newton Street, and the east side of South Osceola Street. The homes were designed by California home designer Cliff May and architect Chris Choate as a line of homes that were manufactured and built under license by builders and lumber yards across the country. In addition to the thousands built across California, Cliff May Homes were built in several states, Denver having the largest such tract outside of California. Cliff May is well-known in California and the west for a long career of designing homes for the rich and famous in his distinct Californian style (which was at once rustic and strikingly modern) in California, across the country, and even internationally.
Locally, the Cliff May Homes were built by D.C. Burns Realty & Trust, a home developer founded in 1899 that was committed to building affordable homes for working families in the Denver area, and was a innovator in the industry. Burns developed the adjacent tract to the east of the Cliff May Homes, Burns-Brentwood and the late 1940s. Additionally, Burns constructed a tract of around 150 Cliff May Homes in Las Vegas, Nevada concurrently with the Denver tract. At the time the Cliff May Homes were built, the firm was under the leadership of Franklin L. Burns, who was an influential home builder, locally and nationally.
