Download or read book Denver s Early Architecture written by James Bretz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of its relentless reputation as a "cow town," Denver has grown from a dusty prairie burg into a thriving metropolis nestled against the foothills of the great Rocky Mountains. Gold brought the area's first settlers in the 1850s, and mining camps sprouted up along the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. The first rudimentary structures of canvas, mud, and logs were soon replaced with sturdy buildings made of brick, stone, and wood, in what is now affectionately referred to as "Lodo" or the lower downtown district. City growth worked its way uptown and to the east from this neighborhood of houses, hotels, shops, and commercial buildings, eventually encompassing Capitol Hill. Many well-known people worked and lived in downtown Denver and Capitol Hill, including the infamous Margaret "Molly" Brown of Titanic fame, railroad man David Moffat, merchant prince Charles Boettcher, druggist-turned-entrepreneur Walter Scott Cheesman, and Denver's notorious lovers, Horace Tabor and his wife "Baby Doe."

Download or read book Historic Denver written by Richard R. Brettell and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Architecture of Country Houses written by Andrew Jackson Downing and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mansions of Denver written by James Bretz and published by Pruett Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In James Bretz's Mansions of Denver, the charm and history of Denver's architectural past is carefully and beautifully drawn. His book provides readers with insight into the city's youth. But it is also a lament - an homage to a time when architectural originality prevailed.

Download or read book Guide to Denver Architecture with Regional Highlights written by and published by Westcliffe Pub. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Denver s Historic Homes written by Amy B. Zimmer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Denver the City Beautiful and Its Architects 1893 to 1941 written by Thomas Jacob Noel and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vanished Denver Landmarks written by Mark A. Barnhouse and published by History Press. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Cherry Creek Gothic written by Sandra Dallas and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of early Denver has over two hundred illustrations of buildings designed by nouveaux riches miners and frontier businessmen who had more money and fanciful imagination than taste. There is also a picture map of the business district in 1892 that shows where many of these extraordinary structures stood.

Download or read book Rural School Buildings written by Rudolph Edward Lee and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide to Denver Architecture written by Mary Voelz Chandler and published by Fulcrum Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Park Hill Neighborhood written by Thomas Jacob Noel and published by Historic Denver, Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historic Denver Guides series immerses readers in the rich history of Denver's buildings and neighborhoods, exploring the city through entertaining tours. The Park Hill Neighborhood guide walks you through one of Denvere's most elegant neighborhoods.

Download or read book Robert S Roeschlaub written by Francine Haber and published by Colorado History Society. This book was released on 1988 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radical Suburbs written by Amanda Kolson Hurley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today’s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The cliche of white picket fences is well past its expiration date. The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially-conscious design, and integrated housing. We have forgotten that we built suburbs like these, such as the co-housing commune of Old Economy, Pennsylvania; a tiny-house anarchist community in Piscataway, New Jersey; a government-planned garden city in Greenbelt, Maryland; a racially integrated subdivision (before the Fair Housing Act) in Trevose, Pennsylvania; experimental Modernist enclaves in Lexington, Massachusetts; and the mixed-use, architecturally daring Reston, Virginia. Inside Radical Suburbs you will find blueprints for affordable, walkable, and integrated communities, filled with a range of environmentally sound residential options. Radical Suburbs is a history that will help us remake the future and rethink our assumptions of suburbia.

Download or read book Bonanza Victorian written by C. Eric Stoehr and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first book to show the old-time architecture of Colorado's mining camps and towns as they look today--not just the buildings of one town or one style of architecture, but the full array of styles from all over the state. Handsomely illustrated with over 250 recent photographs, this nostalgic portrait of a bygone era can help you plan a trip through Colorado, preserve a vacation memory, or even add Victorian touches to your home.--from the front cover.

Download or read book Denver the City Beautiful and Its Architects 1893 1941 written by Thomas Jacob Noel and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Architecture and Art of Early Hispanic Colorado written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974, when it was awarded the Western Heritage Wrangler Award for the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Centre, this remains the only extensive survey of Hispanic building and art on the late Colorado frontier. Because most of the villages where the author found his subjects are now either abandoned to transformed by developers, the book is likely to stand as the only full visual record of what Spanish Americans along the southern border of the state produced. Accompanying the eighty-five full page photographs is a text that briefly outlines the history of pioneer immigration from New Mexico, and described the way adobe buildings were constructed and other artefacts made.