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Curtis Park: Denver's Oldest Neighborhood

This gallery accompanies a Neighborhood History Guide called "Curtis Park: Denver's Oldest Neighborhood," which details the history of the neighborhood in general and specifically for a number of the buildings in these photos.

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View of a three story brick commercial building at 28th (Twenty eighth) Street and Welton Street in the Five Points (or Curtis Park) Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; features include string courses and an entry canopy.

Hispanic-American men, women, and children leave after Easter Mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 2760 Larimer Street in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The church building has a bell tower, stained glass windows, decorative lintels, and an arched entryway.

View of a two-story brick house at 2550 Arapahoe Street in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The building has a covered entryway and arched front wall with windows.

A boy and a girl (in sunglasses) pose on bicycles at the corner of 27th (Twenty Seventh) and Stout Streets in the Curtis Park Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. A stone apartment building has corbeled brick, dentils, a corner turret, an arched window, and carved stone ornaments.

William Allen West, author and historic preservation advocate, poses on the porch of his home in the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District, in the Five Points neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. He is balding, has a beard and mustache and wears a sweater.

African American (Black) and white firemen pose by a fire truck and Station No. 3 of the Denver Fire Department at 2363 Glenarm Place in the Curtis Park (Five Points) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The men wear uniforms and caps. The station has brick arches, keystones, and a tile roof.

This item (1 of 123) is from the Eugene Sternberg Architectural Records (C MSS WH1003). This drawing shows a rendering of the Curtis Park Community Center in Curtis Park, Denver, Colorado and was commissioned by the City of Denver in 1967.

2521 Champa, Historic Curtis Park District

2521 Champa, Historic Curtis Park District

2814 Champa St. Owned by George Apodaca until 1978 and known as "The Indian House" locally

2825 Curtis, Curtis Park Historic District

View of an abandoned apartment building at 816 25th Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The three-story building has boarded up arched windows and decorative brick work.

Orahood House 2903 Champa St.

View of a three story brick house at 2418 Stout Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The house has eclectic architectural elements that include arched windows with voussoirs, bargeboard gables, corbiestep sides, plaster relief details, and a dormer. A sign in the yard reads: "Offered by Marsh & Associates, 628-5474, For Rent."

Anfenger House 2900 Champa

View of a house at 2655 Stout Street in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two-story house has a covered porch with a decorative wall.

View of 2357 and 2361 Curtis Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a pair of matching Queen Anne-style single family residences. The one-story brick houses have a pedimented front gable window bay, scroll-sawn bargeboards, molded plaster rosettes, and decorative carved lintels.

View of a two story stone row house at 2700 to 2714 Stout Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The dilapidated house has High Victorian Gothic elements that include a corner turret, finials and a mansard roof. Shows missing doors and windows. A fence surrounds the property.

View of Congregation Emanuel at 2400 Curtis Street (at 24th - twenty fourth) in the Curtis Park Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; features include a square tower, blind arches, glass brick, a crown ornament, arched windows and a gabled roof and dormers.

View of 2754 Stout Street in the Curtis Park neighborhood (Five Points) in Denver, Colorado; shows a brick house with corbeling and brackets; a man works on the covered porch.

View of a brick commercial building at the corner of 25th (twenty fifth) and Curtis Street, in the Curtis Park Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; features include a portico, parapet, dark brick coursing and corbels Stone lintel reads: "Ideal;" entry awning reads: "Eric's Pub."

2625 California St. Miller House

Colorado National Guard, mustered to combat the labor strike of the Western Federation of Miners, march on Curtis Street in front of the brick Armory building at 2565 Curtis, Denver, Colorado. A crowd, including two Black children, stand and watch.

View of 2613-2619 California Street in the Five Points neighborhood (Curtis Park) of Denver, Colorado. Constructed in 1887, the two-story Italianate duplex has a rusticated stone foundation, brick walls, and a mansard roof with elaborate bracketed wooden jig-sawn friezes and cornices, topped with pediment shaped windows. Both duplexes have bays and porches.The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District.

View of the State Armory (1889; William Quayle) at 2565 Curtis Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a two-story, brick, Romanesque Revival influenced, symmetrical building with semi-circular arched windows, belt courses and an inset entrance in a three-story tower. The brick walls have been stuccoed. The former armory is part of the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District and now houses Scientific Site Inc.

2501 California St. Gospel Mission Church, Elder Frank Mason (1977?- )

View of a two story house designed and built by Orlando Scoby on 2743 Curtis Street in the Curtis Park Historic Districts in Denver, Colorado. The brick house has a porch with decorative wood trim, a pitched roof, and iron fence. A flagstone carriage stoop is in front of the house.

German Methodist Episcopal Church 2501 California St.

View of a house at 2752 Champa Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two-story house has a covered porch.

View of a house at 2445 California Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two-story house has decorative eaves.

2663 Champa St. Walters House, Five Points (Curtis Park)

Ford House 2627 Champa

View of the George W. Kramer home at 2445 California Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; features a mansard roof, terrace, and covered porch. Women pose with a boy and a dog.

View of 2816 Curtis Street (ca. 1880) in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The wooden one-story vernacular cottage has a cross-gabled roof and a small porch at the side. The residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District.

Ford House 2627 Champa

View of the Scobey House (c. 1882) at 2826 Curtis Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. This one-and-one-half-story brick residence shows characteristics of Second Empire and Late Victorian styles. Features include wood trim, iron cresting, and a mansard-roof extension. William Allen West, the owner, is standing next to the porch decorated with scroll-sawn brackets.

View of a house at 2601 Champa Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The brick and stone Second Empire style house has a mansard roof, belt course, covered porch, and octagonal towers.

View of 2825 Curtis Street in the Curtis Park neighborhood (Five Points) in Denver, Colorado; shows a frame house with shingle imbrication and a covered porch and balcony.

Gertrude Apartments

View of 2831 Curtis Street in the Curtis Park neighborhood (Five Points) in Denver, Colorado; shows a brick house with lintels. Men set forms for a new porch foundation.

View of 2525 Champa Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District. The two-story brick Queen Anne house (c. 1885) has a full porch with a pediment above the entry, a bay with a pediment, cornice and fishscale shingles. There is an oriel window on the second floor and an oculus above the porch pediment.

View of the Mannat House (c. 1881) at 2905 Curtis Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. This two-story Italianate residence is part of the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District. Built for Irving Mannat, a grocer, this brick house has a symmetrical facade, truncated hipped roof, bracketed cornice, lintels, a covered porch, a balustrade and bays.

View of a house at 2521 Champa Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The one-story brick house has a half turret and decorative window arch.

View of a house at 2915 Champa Street in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two-story brick house has a covered porch, decorative shutters, and window trim.