Denver’s Park Hill is one of Denver’s oldest neighborhoods, having begun as a 32-acre development more than 120 years ago. Today, the community is home to nearly 20,000 people and is noted for its charm, incredible diversity and way of life that brings people together. As a whole, Park Hill is bounded by Martin Luther […]

With Golden as its name, you shouldn’t be surprised to learn that gold is what led the city’s establishment. A small amount of the precious metal found in Clear Creek drew settlers to the area in the mid-19th century. Golden grew up to provide supplies for the miners heading up the creek. In 1892, Golden […]

Cool, hip and intact Hip, bohemian and intact, Baker, which earned historic district status from the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, is one of the few Denver neighborhoods that has avoided the proliferation of tugboat-style contemporaries. That is to say, Baker feels real. Maybe a porch needs painting. Maybe you can’t find parking […]

The strip of West Colfax Avenue slicing through the neighborhood that shares its name is urban archeology writ large. Used auto dealerships. Mid-century motels converted to housing. Mexican restaurants. A ramen joint. Little Man Ice Cream Factory. A McDonald’s. Depending on the hour, you can score a slice of pizza, a hot pastrami sandwich, a […]

Settled by Jewish immigrants in the 1880s and home to Denver’s first public housing project, this strip of a neighborhood—one of the poorest in the state—is on the precipice of enormous change. Oddly named Sun Valley given its semi-industrial location and past, this narrow enclave bounded by Federal Boulevard on the West, the Platte River […]

Love midcentury modern (MCM) architecture? Then tour the bumper crop of mid-mods in the west metro Applewood subdivisions. Located between 38th and Colfax Avenues north to south and from Kipling Street on the east up the slopes of South Table Mountain to the west, Applewood is for the prolific orchard founded by Myron Bunger. Because […]

Denver’s Chaffee Park neighborhood enjoys approval from the city council that allows accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Increasing the number of ADUs (aka carriage houses, casitas, granny flats or in-law suites) has the potential to add much-needed and more affordable housing to Denver’s inventory. (Denver City Council allows ADUs in the Sloan’s Lake and the West […]

Whether you came from Nebraska, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, New York or even Wheat Ridge, if you came to Denver in your 20’s, chances are you logged time in a Capitol Hill apartment. (Want to date yourself? Brag about $250 one-bedrooms.) If you never did laundry at Smiley’s Laundromat or horked down a burrito at the Satire […]

A restaurant housed in a former mortuary. A 28-foot-tall-cream-can ice-cream store. A graceful bridge arching from Central to Platte Street. A food hall with seven shipping-containers, restaurants and jaw-dropping city views. What’s not to like? Lower Highland, or the hipper, abbreviated LoHi, is as an uber-trendy destination and jumping-off point between Denver’s downtown core and […]

It would be romantic to think that one of Denver’s most distinctive neighborhoods got its name from a shattered love affair in the Scottish Highlands. But the truth is more prosaic. George W. Olinger, a scion of the Olinger Mortuary family, saw a subdivision in Kansas City he liked with the same name, Bonnie Brae, […]