Skip to main content

Search Options

Enter search terms

Main navigation

About
Research
Denver
Genealogy
Photos
Blair-Caldwell AARL
Contact Us

Globeville History

by Alejandro Hernández on August 27, 2020

Laradon Hall formerly Globeville School

Sam Maestas Jr., home on leave

View of the work yard at the Globe Smelter at 52nd (Fifty-second), Logan, and Washington Streets in Denver, Colorado. A worker pushes an ore cart on the Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge railroad tracks past a pile of loose rails. Shows brick masonry buildings. Men work under the eaves by the smelter. Chimneys belch smoke.

View of Globe Smelter at 52nd (Fifty-second), Logan, and Washington Streets in Denver, Colorado. Men work in the yard. Shows brick masonry buildings, furnaces, tall smelter chimneys, ladders, tailing piles, and carts. Several large ore crucibles sit in carts on the narrow gauge tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.

Locations & Hours

Special Collections and Archives
Central Library
10 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy.
Denver, CO 80204
Reference Telephone:
720-865-1821
Central Library Services and Hours

Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library
2401 Welton St.
Denver, CO 80205
Reference Telephone:
720-865-2401
Blair-Caldwell Services and Hours

Shortcuts

Research Tools A-Z
Digital Collections
Research Services/Access
Archive Finding Aids
History for Kids
Calendar
Exhibits
denverlibrary.org
Blair-Caldwell African-American Research Library
Get a Card
Interlibrary Loan

Awards
Newsletter
Donate
Blog/News
Contact Us
ADA Accessibility