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Denver architecture: Territorial Adobe
Territorial Adobe buildings are most common in southern Colorado and date from approximately 1880 through the 1940s. These buildings were constructed using adobe blocks, yet have some elements of formal architectural style or are influenc...
Denver architecture: Lustron
The Swedish-born Chicago engineer Carl Standlund (1899-1974) founded the Lustron Corporation in 1946 in response to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) support of pre-fabricated, high-volume home construction. The company operated from S...
Denver architecture: Foursquare
One of the most commonly found forms in Colorado residential buildings after 1900, the Foursquare is easily recognized by its square plan, two-story height and overall simplicity. The majority of these houses were built during the first t...
Denver architecture: Split Level
Often referred to as a tri-level, a split-level is more of a building type than a style. Developed in the 1930s, it emerged in the 1950s as a multi-story counterpart to the dominant one-story Ranch house. Retaining the low-pitched roof, o...
Halloween 2021: Denver-Area Haunted Houses
Get some uniquely Denver scares this Halloween at Molly Brown House and 13th Floor Haunted House Molly Brown House Located at 1340 Pennsylvania St. in Denver, the Molly Brown House is arguably one of the most recognized homes in the...
Denver architecture: Classic Cottage
The Classic Cottage is basically a one-story version of the Foursquare. It features an elongated hipped roof with central dormer, and front porch, often full-width, with thick porch posts or simplified Doric columns supporting the porch r...
Denver architecture: WPA Modernist
The primary goal of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of many 1930s New Deal relief and recovery programs, was to put people to work. Most projects were designed to spend a majority of the funds on labor, not materials. Addit...
Denver architecture: Usonian
Typically associated with modern architecture of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Usonia as a concept actually goes back to the turn of the twentieth century. Conceived by Frank Lloyd Wright around 1900, Usonia was a design philosophy that evo...