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View of the Centennial Airport terminal building at 7800 South Peoria Street in Englewood (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The wing shaped entrance of the airport has a drive way wrapping around the exterior. A runway is in the background. A tall column supports the underside of the wing, which curves up to the edges that are lined with metal protrusions which represent feathers. The building was constructed in 1967.

View of the home of Justina Laurena Carter Ford, M.D., Denver's first African American woman doctor, at 2335 Arapahoe Street, in the Five Points Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The abandoned brick house has a covered porch, brick ornaments, and a wooden cornice.

2016 LEGO® Building Contest Inspiration

View of the Art Deco style Mayan Theater (Montana S. Fallis, architect, 1930) at 110 Broadway Street in the Speer Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The four story building is stone clad with Pre-Columbian motifs and a bas relief of a ritual officiate in multi-color terra cotta ornament by Julius P. Ambrusch of the Denver Terra Cotta Company. The marquee reads: "Oscar Winners, Room With A View, Color of Money, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, My Sweet Little Village."

Detailed view of the top of the facade of the Mayan Theater (architect Montana S. Fallis, 1930) at 110 Broadway in the Speer neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a polychrome terracotta Mayan figure (crafted by Julius P. Ambrusch of the Denver Terra Cotta Company) on the front of the Art Deco-style theater. The facade was restored by architects Midyette-Seieroe, in 1985.

Night view of Curtis Street in Denver, Colorado; shows snow and movie theaters. Electric signs read: "Marquette," "Iris Theater," "Isis," and "The Nanking Chop Suey, Pool."

Denver Movie Theaters: A Look Back

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