For Immediate Release
September 20, 2022
Contact Gerald Horner 303-653-5664 or [email protected]
Homes, Historic Sites, and Tree Canopy Tour
Presented by Historic Denver and Curtis Park Neighbors
September 24, 25, 2022
10 am - 3 pm both days
Cost $25 ($20 for Members of Historic Denver and Curtis Park
residents)
Pre-sale tickets can be purchased at Historicdenver.org or
here:https://bit.ly/3ITSi5M
8 Homes and 4 Historic Sites will be Open for Viewing
MobCraft Beer/Dee Tacko, 2403 Champa St, will serve as tour
headquarters
Curtis Park, in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood, contains an unusual mix
of high-style, grand residences built in the late 1800s for Denver’s wealthy
located next door to quaint, one-story cottages, duplexes and rowhouses
built for the City’s working and middle class. More than 500 historic homes
are protected in Curtis Park under the Denver Landmark Preservation
ordinance, with superb examples of Queen Anne, Italianate, Eastlake, and
Second Empire homes.
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In addition to diversity of housing, there was extraordinary racial and
cultural diversity in Curtis Park. In the 1870s, many settlers were of western
and northern European extraction. Post-World War II, many
Japanese-Americans, African-Americans, and Latino families moved into the
area; Curtis Park was one of the places where they felt most at home and
most welcomed.
Denver’s first park, Curtis Park, established in 1868, was renamed
Mestizo-Curtis Park in 1987 to reflect the diversity of the neighborhood.
Mestizo, meaning of mixed blood.
As one of Denver’s first neighborhoods, Curtis Park also had
neighborhood-serving businesses, social organizations, places of worship,
and other services. Curtis Park, in those days, truly made Denver a
“15-Minute City” where most of resident’s daily needs could be met with a
15 minute walk.
Historic sites on the tour will include the Edbrook-designed and one of
Denver’s earliest Jewish Synagogues, Temple Emanuel (1882); Ideal
Laundry, 1910, (now Montessori Academy of Colorado); the Colorado
National Guard Armory (1889) that housed the Colorado State Militia; and
The Savoy (1889) performance venue.
Contributing to the livability of Curtis Park, neighbors have worked for years
to increase the tree canopy and green spaces in the neighborhood. The tour
will include a look at those spaces and why they are important in historically
marginalized communities.
The 2022 Historic Curtis Park Tour offers a chance to revisit the
extraordinary, diverse history of Denver’s earliest days.
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