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Local News Facts And History : Colorado : Denver/Boulder/Greeley

An Architectural Mecca?

Posted March 24, 2008 by Realty.com Editor

Denver, Colorado is one of America’s architectural landmarks. From the inventive design of it’s inner city neighborhoods to the design of the playful recreational parks found scattered throughout this city of wonder.

The City and County of Denver has defined 79 official neighborhoods that are composed of everything from large skyscrapers to turn of the twentieth century houses to modern, suburban style developments. Generally, the neighborhoods closest to the city center are denser, older and contain more brick building material. In 1858, Denver was no more than a collection of dusty buildings on a long grassy plain. As of today there are over 200 parks throughout the city.

Many of Denver’s parks were acquired from state lands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This coincided with the City Beautiful movement, and legendary Denver mayor Robert Speer set out to expand and beautify the city’s parks. Reinhard Schuetze was the city’s first landscape architect, and he brought his German-educated landscaping genius to Washington Park, Cheesman Park, and City Park among others.

To this day, any number of aspiring architects can be spotted with notepad and pencil in hand taking notes on some of these classic constructions of engineering mastery.

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