West Wazee Street Warehouse District, Colorado Casket Company, 1213-12...
Significance: Constructed in 1898 by the Colorado Casket Company, manufacturers of "High Class Funeral Furnishings." Under the ownership of the Colorado Casket Company the first floor of the structure was used ... More
Altman Farm, Pump House, East side of Buckely Road, 0.5 mile south of ...
Significance: The Altman Farm is a significant example of early 1900s rural adaptations to the evolving economic needs and changing methods of livestock husbandry. The major farm outbuilding, the barn, offers a... More
Cattle, mostly Herefords, for sale in Denver stockyards. Denver, Color...
Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Stockyards. Denver, Colorado - safety film negatives, Library of Congr...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Denver, Colorado. Workers giving ship steel a thorough rinsing after i...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Denver, Colorado. This workman has gone "all out" to speed up the Navy...
Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
West Wazee Street Warehouse District, Denver Dry Goods Company Warehou...
Significance: The building was designed in 1901 by prominent Denver architect, Frank Edbrooke as a warehouse for the Denver Dry Goods Company... Survey number: HABS CO-70-D Building/structure dates: 1901 Init... More
Inside view of the Colorado Capitol dome in Denver. On the outside, th...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Bullfight at the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza, part of the National West...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
High Line Canal, Mouth of South Platte River to confluence with Second...
Significance: The first major irrigation project on the Front Range, it was the largest and most expensive canal ever built in Colorado before the advent of transmontane water diversion. Also called the "Englis... More
High Line Canal, Mouth of South Platte River to confluence with Second...
Significance: The first major irrigation project on the Front Range, it was the largest and most expensive canal ever built in Colorado before the advent of transmontane water diversion. Also called the "Englis... More
Wellenkotter Ranch, Barn, 112th Avenue & Watkins Road, Denver, Denver ...
Significance: The Wellenkotter Ranch is representative of the historical development of agriculture in west-central Adams County during the late nineteenth century. The ranch, covering about 1,100 acres at its ... More
Tears-McFarlane Garage, 1200 Williams Street, Denver, Denver County, C...
Digitized index card Survey number: HABS CO-27 Building/structure dates: ca. 1925- ca. 1935 Initial Construction
Highline Extension Canal, Denver, Denver County, CO
Linear resource covering a wide area. See documentation for exact location of extant features. Significance: The canal system helped promote the agricultural settlement of the west-central Adams County. The pr... More
Highline Extension Canal, Denver, Denver County, CO
Linear resource covering a wide area. See documentation for exact location of extant features. Significance: The canal system helped promote the agricultural settlement of the west-central Adams County. The pr... More
Tivoli-Union Brewery, 1320-1348 Tenth Street, Denver, Denver County, C...
Significance: One of the largest gravity fed breweries in the United States. Survey number: HAER CO-1 Building/structure dates: ca. 1879 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1882 Subsequent Work B... More
Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 Sherman Street, Denver, Denver Count...
Survey number: HABS CO-41 Public domain photograph of a protestant church, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 Sherman Street, Denver, Denver Count...
Survey number: HABS CO-41 Public domain photograph of a protestant church, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
S. W. Shattuck Chemical Company, Incorporated, Building No. 4, 1805 So...
Significance: The significance of the site arises from its role in processing various metals since 1918. At various periods of time, molyixlerum compounds, radium, uranium compounds, and rhenium were produced a... More
Safeway, 3033 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-193 Building/structure dates: 1941-1942 Initial Construction
Lincoln Park Homes, Type A Residential Building, West Colfax Avenue & ...
Significance: The Lincoln Park Homes complex is one of Colorado's earliest public housing projects. One of three such projects planned by the Denver Housing Authority soon after the agency's formation in 1938, ... More
City & County Building, Civic Center, Denver, Denver County, CO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS CO-68 Building/structure dates: ca. 1933 Initial Construction
Altman Farm, Barn, East side of Buckely Road, 0.5 mile south of Sevent...
Significance: This 1923 barn is constructed of crude cast-in-place concrete up to the second floor, horizontal wood siding over wood frame on the second floor, and a plank-truss roof system with original wood s... More
Delaware Street Tramway Power Sub-Station, 1448 Delaware Street, Denve...
Significance: It is significant for its association with the growth and development of Denver's tramway trolley system, a major transportation system during the first half of the 20th century. This substation w... More
Delaware Street Tramway Power Sub-Station, 1448 Delaware Street, Denve...
Significance: It is significant for its association with the growth and development of Denver's tramway trolley system, a major transportation system during the first half of the 20th century. This substation w... More
Delaware Street Tramway Power Sub-Station, 1448 Delaware Street, Denve...
Significance: It is significant for its association with the growth and development of Denver's tramway trolley system, a major transportation system during the first half of the 20th century. This substation w... More
Twentieth Street Viaduct, Spans Platte River Valley between Thirty-thi...
See also Union Pacific Railroad Warehouse, HABS No. CO-128 Significance: It is the longest of Denver's viaducts. Its length grew from the need to cross not only the Platte River but also Denver's extensive rail... More
Beierle Farm, House, Hudson Road & Ninety-sixth Avenue, Denver, Denver...
Significance: As a complex, the current Beierle Farm offers an example of the work process and flow of a wheat and grain farm and its methods of operation. In particular the grain bins and scale house offer exa... More
S. W. Shattuck Chemical Company, Incorporated, Ammonia Storage Tanks, ...
Survey number: HAER CO-71-G Public domain photograph of a storage tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
S. W. Shattuck Chemical Company, Incorporated, Ammonia Storage Tanks, ...
Survey number: HAER CO-71-G Public domain photograph of a storage tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
H.A.W. Tabor Block, Larimer & Sixteenth Streets, Denver, Denver County...
Survey number: HABS CO-111 Building/structure dates: 1879 Initial Construction
Saint Luke's Hospital, Nurses' Home, 501 East Nineteenth Avenue, North...
Survey number: HABS CO-195-A Building/structure dates: 1938 Initial Construction
Thirty-first Street Overflow Structure, Thirty-first Street, Denver, D...
Significance: This overflow structure comprised an important part of the sanitary engineering system built in Denver during the last part of the 19th century. Survey number: HAER CO-18 Building/structure date... More
Colorado & Southern Railway Denver Roundhouse Complex, Seventh Street,...
Significance: The complex is a significant property associated with the history of railroading in Colorado. It represents the last of Denver's once numerous roundhouses, and includes one of the few remaining ex... More
Colorado & Southern Railway Denver Roundhouse Complex, Seventh Street,...
Significance: The complex is a significant property associated with the history of railroading in Colorado. It represents the last of Denver's once numerous roundhouses, and includes one of the few remaining ex... More
Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...
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 ... More
Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...
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 ... More
Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...
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 ... More
Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...
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 ... More
Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...
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 ... More
Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...
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 ... More
Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...
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 ... More
Fort Logan National Cemetery, 3698 South Sheridan Boulevard, Denver, D...
Survey number: HALS CO-2 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 16000810
Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Stree...
Significance: Designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, the Empire Building is a significant example of the later works of one of Denver's most prominent architects, and represents early low-rise commercial construction i... More
Ziegler Farm, Milking Barn, North side of Seventy-second Avenue, west ...
Significance: The Ziegler Farm is an example of 1920s and 1930s vernacular farm architecture. The farm buildings provide examples of Colorado plains dairy farm architecture during the period. As a complex, the ... More
George Schleier Mansion, 1665 Grant Street, Denver, Denver County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-40 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
George Schleier Mansion, 1665 Grant Street, Denver, Denver County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-40 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
George Schleier Mansion, 1665 Grant Street, Denver, Denver County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-40 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
West Wazee Street Warehouse District, 1143 Wazee Street (Commercial Bu...
Significance: This building is one of the earliest surviving structures in the West Wazee Street District. The structure was originally used as a forge where farm equipment was manufactured. Historical maps ind... More
Batione Block, 1720 Larimer Street, Denver, Denver County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-117 Public domain photograph of a hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Plant construction. Denver ordnance plant, Denver, Colorado. Setting u...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Army tent manufacture. Schaeffer Tent and Awning Company, Denver, Col...
Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
American singing-songwriting legend Judy Collins, prior to a performan...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Judy Collins is a revered interpretive singer who emerged from the folk revival of the late 1950s and early '60s. A Coloradan who also... More
Longhorn cattle attract a crowd at the National Western Stock Show's k...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Elegant rider at the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza, part of the National ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
S. W. Shattuck Chemical Company, Incorporated, Building No. 5, 1805 So...
Significance: The significance of the site arises from its role in processing various metals since 1918. At various periods of time, molyixlerum compounds, radium, uranium compounds, and rhenium were produced a... More
Glenarm Branch, Denver Young Men's Christian Association, 501 Twenty-e...
Significance: The significance of the Glenarm Branch of the Denver Young Men's Christian Association (Glenarm Recreation Center) lies in its association with Denver's black population and their history. Survey... More
Snow White Cleaners & Laundry, 3043 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denve...
Survey number: HABS CO-192 Building/structure dates: 1947-1948 Initial Construction
High Line Canal, Mouth of South Platte River to confluence with Second...
Significance: The first major irrigation project on the Front Range, it was the largest and most expensive canal ever built in Colorado before the advent of transmontane water diversion. Also called the "Englis... More
Wellenkotter Ranch, Barn, 112th Avenue & Watkins Road, Denver, Denver ...
Significance: The Wellenkotter Ranch is representative of the historical development of agriculture in west-central Adams County during the late nineteenth century. The ranch, covering about 1,100 acres at its ... More
Wellenkotter Ranch, Barn, 112th Avenue & Watkins Road, Denver, Denver ...
Significance: The Wellenkotter Ranch is representative of the historical development of agriculture in west-central Adams County during the late nineteenth century. The ranch, covering about 1,100 acres at its ... More
Ziegler Farm, House, North side of Seventy-second Avenue, west of Huds...
Significance: The Ziegler Farm is an example of 1920s and 1930s vernacular farm architecture. The farm buildings provide examples of Colorado plains dairy farm architecture during the period. As a complex, the ... More
Highline Extension Canal, Denver, Denver County, CO
Linear resource covering a wide area. See documentation for exact location of extant features. Significance: The canal system helped promote the agricultural settlement of the west-central Adams County. The pr... More
Altman Farm, House, East side of Buckely Road, 0.5 mile south of Seven...
Significance: The Altman Farm is a significant example of early 1900s rural adaptations to the evolving economic needs and changing methods of livestock husbandry. The major farm outbuilding, the barn, offers a... More
Tivoli-Union Brewery, 1320-1348 Tenth Street, Denver, Denver County, C...
Significance: One of the largest gravity fed breweries in the United States. Survey number: HAER CO-1 Building/structure dates: ca. 1879 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1882 Subsequent Work B... More
Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 Sherman Street, Denver, Denver Count...
Survey number: HABS CO-41 Public domain photograph of a protestant church, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Safeway, 3033 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-193 Building/structure dates: 1941-1942 Initial Construction
Wellenkotter Ranch, Main House, 112th Avenue & Watkins Road, Denver, D...
Significance: The Wellenkotter Ranch is representative of the historical development of agriculture in west-central Adams County during the late nineteenth century. The ranch, covering about 1,100 acres at its ... More
Lawrence & Fifteenth Streets (Commercial Building), Denver, Denver Cou...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Twentieth Street Viaduct, Spans Platte River Valley between Thirty-thi...
See also Union Pacific Railroad Warehouse, HABS No. CO-128 Significance: It is the longest of Denver's viaducts. Its length grew from the need to cross not only the Platte River but also Denver's extensive rail... More
Twentieth Street Viaduct, Spans Platte River Valley between Thirty-thi...
See also Union Pacific Railroad Warehouse, HABS No. CO-128 Significance: It is the longest of Denver's viaducts. Its length grew from the need to cross not only the Platte River but also Denver's extensive rail... More
Twentieth Street Viaduct, Spans Platte River Valley between Thirty-thi...
See also Union Pacific Railroad Warehouse, HABS No. CO-128 Significance: It is the longest of Denver's viaducts. Its length grew from the need to cross not only the Platte River but also Denver's extensive rail... More
Twentieth Street Viaduct, Spans Platte River Valley between Thirty-thi...
See also Union Pacific Railroad Warehouse, HABS No. CO-128 Significance: It is the longest of Denver's viaducts. Its length grew from the need to cross not only the Platte River but also Denver's extensive rail... More
Globeville Community House, 4496 Grant Street, Denver, Denver County, ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Beierle Farm, House, Hudson Road & Ninety-sixth Avenue, Denver, Denver...
Significance: As a complex, the current Beierle Farm offers an example of the work process and flow of a wheat and grain farm and its methods of operation. In particular the grain bins and scale house offer exa... More
May D & F Building, 350 Sixteenth Street, Denver, Denver County, CO
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Thirty-first Street Overflow Structure, Thirty-first Street, Denver, D...
Significance: This overflow structure comprised an important part of the sanitary engineering system built in Denver during the last part of the 19th century. Survey number: HAER CO-18 Building/structure date... More
Thirty-first Street Overflow Structure, Thirty-first Street, Denver, D...
Significance: This overflow structure comprised an important part of the sanitary engineering system built in Denver during the last part of the 19th century. Survey number: HAER CO-18 Building/structure date... More
Colorado & Southern Railway Denver Roundhouse Complex, Seventh Street,...
Significance: The complex is a significant property associated with the history of railroading in Colorado. It represents the last of Denver's once numerous roundhouses, and includes one of the few remaining ex... More
Colorado & Southern Railway Denver Roundhouse Complex, Seventh Street,...
Significance: The complex is a significant property associated with the history of railroading in Colorado. It represents the last of Denver's once numerous roundhouses, and includes one of the few remaining ex... More
Skyline Park, 1500-1800 Arapaho Street, Denver, Denver County, CO
Significance: Lawrence Halprin (b. 1916) is an internationally acclaimed landscape architect and urban designer. His firm, Lawrence Halprin Associates of San Francisco, California, produced numerous designs re... More
Skyline Park, 1500-1800 Arapaho Street, Denver, Denver County, CO
Significance: Lawrence Halprin (b. 1916) is an internationally acclaimed landscape architect and urban designer. His firm, Lawrence Halprin Associates of San Francisco, California, produced numerous designs re... More
Delgany Street Railroad Bridge, Spanning Cherry Creek at Delgany Stree...
Significance: The bridge is a single span, wrought and cast iron through Pratt truss and is one of the few remaining representatives of this once-common bridge type in Denver. It is technologically significant ... More
Fourteenth Street Viaduct, Fourteenth Street at Wazee Street, Denver, ...
Significance: Built in 1898. Of all the multiple-span wagon/tram viaducts built in Denver in the 19th century, only the 14th St. Viaduct remains in use. With its 63 spans of steel stringers, it is the only long... More
National Radium Institute, 500 South Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Denver Co...
Significance: It was incorporated in September 1913 to extract radium from domestic ores for use in career treatment and other technical studies, and in the process, to develop cost-effective methods of radium ... More
National Radium Institute, 500 South Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Denver Co...
Significance: It was incorporated in September 1913 to extract radium from domestic ores for use in career treatment and other technical studies, and in the process, to develop cost-effective methods of radium ... More
Boettcher School for Crippled Children, 1900 Downing Street, Denver, D...
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 ... More
Fort Logan National Cemetery, 3698 South Sheridan Boulevard, Denver, D...
Survey number: HALS CO-2 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 16000810
Fort Logan National Cemetery, 3698 South Sheridan Boulevard, Denver, D...
Survey number: HALS CO-2 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 16000810
Fort Logan National Cemetery, 3698 South Sheridan Boulevard, Denver, D...
Survey number: HALS CO-2 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 16000810
Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Stree...
Significance: Designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, the Empire Building is a significant example of the later works of one of Denver's most prominent architects, and represents early low-rise commercial construction i... More
Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Stree...
Significance: Designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, the Empire Building is a significant example of the later works of one of Denver's most prominent architects, and represents early low-rise commercial construction i... More
Ziegler Farm, Barn, North side of Seventy-second Avenue, west of Hudso...
Significance: The Ziegler Farm is an example of 1920s and 1930s vernacular farm architecture. The farm buildings provide examples of Colorado plains dairy farm architecture during the period. As a complex, the ... More
George Schleier Mansion, 1665 Grant Street, Denver, Denver County, CO
Survey number: HABS CO-40 Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
1516-1520 Larimer Street (Commercial Building), Denver, Denver County,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Beierle Farm, Chicken House, Hudson Road & Ninety-sixth Avenue, Denver...
Significance: As a complex, the current Beierle Farm offers an example of the work process and flow of a wheat and grain farm and its methods of operation. In particular the grain bins and scale house offer exa... More
Transferring cattle to buyers' pens after a sale. Stockyards, Denver, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Marking sheep for fur. Stockyards, Denver, Colorado
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Sheep. Stockyards, Denver, Colorado
Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description