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Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

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Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

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Summary

Significance: It was the first building in Colorado designed specifically for the education of the physically handicapped. It was free of barriers to the handicapped and provided programs developed to meet the special challenges of the children who attended the school. Constructed in 1940, the school was part of a national movement begun around 1920 to provide educational services for children with physical disabilities...

Survey number: HABS CO-131

Building/structure dates: 1939-1940 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1956 Subsequent Work

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date_range

Date

1940 - 1980
person

Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Burnham, Hoyt
Whitacre, Roger, photographer
Hoeft, Kathleen, historian
Long, Gary, delineator
place

Location

Denver (Colo.) ,  39.74600, -104.97334
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Source

Library of Congress
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Link

http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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schools education handicapped persons boettcher school boettcher school children denver denver county colorado hoyt burnham historic american buildings survey kathleen hoeft gary long roger whitacre photo ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress