Category Archives: neighborhoods

In Memoriam: Father Joseph Hirsch

It was with great sadness that we received the news of the death of Father Joseph Hirsch, who was the Dean of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ Cathedral in Globeville for the past 25 years. Father Joe was a fixture … Continue reading

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Denver’s First African American Architect

—By Patrick Stephenson Although I was born in Denver and have lived in the surrounding area my entire life, I didn’t actually move to within city limits until 1999; the summer I turned thirty-eight. That same summer I met my … Continue reading

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Sunday, February 26, 1950

—by Mary Lou Egan The story and photos occupied several pages of both the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. KOA Radio carried the broadcast live and a score of airplanes flew overhead. An estimated 100,000 people gathered near … Continue reading

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Tivoli-Union Brewery: Abandoned, Explored, Restored

— by Hugh Graham During the winter of 1978-1979, as a senior in high school, some friends and I would head downtown on Friday nights for the midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Odgen Theater. Coming … Continue reading

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Mile High Housing Association

—by Jennifer Boone After 25 years of retail I decided to make a midlife change of profession. My husband and I sold our business with lofty notions of re-entering the art world after a long hiatus and of contributing in … Continue reading

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