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Building Histories

Clip from Rocky Mountain News article titled "Brainy film's special effects pay off." The image is six people standing in front of bookcases in Central Library basement with camera crew.

When DPL Hosted Monsters in the Basement

Obituary For A Denver House

Denver City Directory cover page, 1889

How to Search City Directories in Ancestry Library Edition

Touring the Metropolitan: Once Denver’s Largest Theater

Watercolor and gouache painting shows the Eldorado Hotel, at 1249 10th (Tenth) Street, (10th near Larimer) Denver, Colorado. Built by Henri and Katrina Murat, This log building was the first hotel in the Denver area.

Denver’s First Hotel: El Dorado Lost and Found

View of Mrs. George W. (Ethel R.) Gano's residence, South University Road, Denver, Colorado, a brick house with arches, picture windows, a flagstone patio, wicker furniture, and potted trees.

The Haunting at Bradmar

Merton S. (Andy) Anderson, left, vice-president, and Jim P. Mola, president of the Village Inn pancake house restaurants, celebrate the 10th birthday of their franchise operation with a birthday cake made of pancakes. The restaurant behind them at 8855 E. Colfax Ave., was the first in the group which now numbers 37 stores.

Village Inn's Colorado Roots

Japanese men arrive from the Merced Assembly Center, California, by train, carrying suitcases and boarding school buses on their way to Camp Amache, Granada Relocation Center, Prowers County, southeastern Colorado. A United States soldier in uniform stands next to the passenger train car and looks on as the line of evacuees board the bus.

Remembering Forgotten People Through the Power of Place

View of Colburn Hotel in Denver, Colorado; shows a brick building with urns and a covered entry. Cars are parked at the curb.

"The Hotel With A Personality:" Denver's Colburn Hotel

View of the Campion home site at 800 Logan Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; an apartment building has a Moderne style mosaic finish.

Making History at 888 Logan

View of 2140-2148 Arapahoe Street, circa 1900 and 2014

Remnants of the Past: Building Fragments of the 1890 Denver Turnverein Building

The Albany Hotel

Denver’s Albany Hotel (1885-1976)

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