Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- First Congregational Church, ceiling and clerestory windows
- Interior view of ceiling details and clerestory windows.
- Historic preservation--Colorado--Denver.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver.; Architecture--Colorado--Denver--History.; Church buildings--Colorado--Denver.
- 1987 January 10
- Colorado Mountain Club
- View of 1723 East 16th (Sixteenth) Avenue in the City Park West neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The modified two story Queen Anne style house has a brick addition. The main part of the house has decorative shingling on the second story. The brick...
- Colorado Mountain Club--1970-1980.; City Park West (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Clubs.; Colorado Mountain Club--Pictorial works.; Clubs--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; City Park West (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial...
- 1974
- Colorado Mountain Club
- View of 1723 East 16th (Sixteenth) Avenue in the City Park West neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The modified two story Queen Anne style house has a brick addition. The main part of the house has decorative shingling on the second story. The brick...
- Colorado Mountain Club--1970-1980.; City Park West (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Clubs.; Colorado Mountain Club--Pictorial works.; Clubs--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; City Park West (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial...
- 1974
- REI, Denver
- View of the Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) Building, 1416 Platte Street, in the Highland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a red brick building and the South Platte River. The building has a parapet with a corbeled cornice and three blind...
- REI (Firm)--Buildings--2010-2020.; Starbucks Coffee Company--Buildings--2010-2020.; Denver Tramway Company (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--2010-2020.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--2010-2020.; Highland (Denver, Colo.)--2010-2020.; Denver...
- 2010
- Forney Transportation Museum (constructed as the Denver Tramway Power Company Powerhouse) and Harry H. Post building
- View of the Forney Transportation Museum, constructed as the Denver Tramway Power Company Powerhouse (1901), at 1416 Platte Street, and the Harry H. Post Building near the South Platte River, in the Highland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The...
- Denver Tramway Company (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1970-1980.; Forney Museum of Transportation--Buildings--1970-1980.; Harry H. Post Company--Buildings--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Highland (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; South Platte...
- 1975
- Denver Tramway Power Company powerhouse
- View of the REI Building, located at 1416 Platte Street, in the Highland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the top portion of the southeast elevation of the red brick building with a parapet with a corbeled cornice, and three inset corbeled,...
- Denver Tramway Company (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1990-2000.; Forney Museum of Transportation--Buildings--1990-2000.; REI (Firm)--Buildings--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Highland (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Sporting goods stores.;...
- 1999
- REI building
- View of the Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) Building, 1416 Platte Street, in the Highland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the southeast elevation of the red brick building with a parapet with a corbeled cornice, and three inset corbeled,...
- Denver Tramway Company (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--2000-2010.; Forney Museum of Transportation--Buildings--2000-2010.; REI (Firm)--Buildings--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Highland (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Sporting goods stores.;...
- 2002
- Forney Transportation Museum formerly known as the Denver Tramway Power Company powerhouse
- View of the Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) Building, 1416 Platte Street, in the Highland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a red brick building and the South Platte River. A red caboose is next to the building. The southeast elevation,...
- Denver Tramway Company (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1990-2000.; Forney Museum of Transportation--Buildings--1990-2000.; REI (Firm)--Buildings--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Highland (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; South Platte River (Colo....
- 1999
- Forney Transportation Museum and South Platte River formerly known as the Denver Tramway Power Company powerhouse
- View of the Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) Building, 1416 Platte Street, in the Highland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a refuse container with construction debris, fencing, and a sign in front of a red brick building. There are ladders...
- Denver Tramway Company (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1990-2000.; Forney Museum of Transportation--Buildings--1990-2000.; REI (Firm)--Buildings--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Highland (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Construction.; Sporting...
- 1999
- Forney Transportation Museum and South Platte River formerly known as the Denver Tramway Power Company powerhouse
- View of the red brick Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) building, located at 1416 Platte Street, and Confluence Park in the Highland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows concrete retaining walls on the South Platte River, a walkway, steps, low...
- Denver Tramway Company (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1990-2000.; Forney Museum of Transportation--Buildings--1990-2000.; REI (Firm)--Buildings--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Highland (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; South Platte River (Colo....
- 1999
- Walsen Colored Club
- View of the Walsen Colored Club, a miners' club building for African-American miners at the mining camp of Walsen, in Huerfano County, Colorado. Shows a wood frame building with clapboard siding and a false front. Clerestory windows sit on top of a...
- African Americans--Structures--Colorado--Walsen--1910-1920.; Walsen (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Clubhouses--Colorado--Walsen--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1912?]
- Stone depot, Colorado Springs
- Men wear suits, stand, and pose with bicycles including one high-wheeled bicycle on tracks in front of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Midland Railway depot in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. A man is on a horse-drawn "Wells Fargo...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--Buildings--1890-1900.; Colorado Midland Railway Company--Buildings--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bicycles & tricycles--Colorado--Colorado...
- [1892?]
- Denver from the capital
- Panoramic view of Denver, Colorado from the Capitol Building. Shows the intersection of Colfax and Broadway, Denver Fire Department Engine House No. 1, the Denver Cable powerhouse with a large smokestack and storefronts, a park, sidewalks,...
- Denver City Cable Railway Company--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Cities & towns.; Commercial facilities.; Fire stations.; Parks.; Power plants.
- [between 1900 and 1910?]
- Bakersfield railroad station
- In this reproduction of a cabinet card mounted to corkboard, men stand beside the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway station in Bakersfield (Kern County), California. Shows a one-story brick structure with clerestory windows.
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--1900-1910.; Bakersfield (Calif.)--1900-1910.; Cabinet photographs--1900-1910.; Railroad stations--California--Bakersfield--1900-1910.
- [between 1900 and 1905?]
- Colorado Springs railroad station
- Passengers wait under bracketed eaves at the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and Colorado Midland Railway depot at Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows a rusticated sandstone structure with clerestory windows, balustrade, and...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--Buildings--1890-1900.; Colorado Midland Railway Company--Buildings--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.
- [between 1895 and 1900?]
- Chicago, Chicago & N.W. Ry. photographic car
- View of a Chicago & North Western Railway Company train and tracks in Chicago (Cook County), Illinois. A man poses with a box camera on a passenger car that reads: "Detroit Photographic Co." A passenger car has clerestory windows; a man and a water...
- Chicago and North Western Railway Company--1890-1900.; Detroit Photographic Co.--1890-1900.; Afro-Americans--Men--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900.; Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900.; Cameras--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900.; Railroad passenger...
- [1898?]
- Interior of Detroit Photographic Co's car
- Interior view of the Detroit Photographic Company railroad car, probably in Chicago (Cook County), Illinois. Men wear suits and sit behind a table covered by a woven rug. Photographic prints are on a table and hang on interior walls. The car has...
- Chicago and North Western Railway Company--1890-1900.; Detroit Photographic Co.--Facilities--1890-1900.; Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900.; Bicycles & tricycles--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900.; Interiors--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900.;...
- [1898?]
- Brigham Young's old mill, Liberty Park, Salt Lake City
- View of an adobe and timber building, the Chase grist mill, at Liberty Park in Salt Lake City (Salt Lake County), Utah. The barn-like building has a gable roof with a raised center and clerestory windows, windows with wooden sills and lintels, a...
- Young, Brigham, 1801-1877--Homes & haunts.; Liberty Park (Salt Lake City, Utah)--1900-1910.; Salt Lake City (Utah)--1900-1910.; Mills--Utah--Salt Lake City--1900-1910.
- [1900?]
- Santa Fe-Midland Depot, Colorado Springs
- View of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and Colorado Midland Railway depot in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. The depot is of rusticated sandstone with parapet, clerestory windows, and overhanging eaves. Shows a freight house...
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company--Buildings--1880-1900.; Colorado Midland Railway Company--Buildings--1880-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1900.;...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- Alie Bell Mine
- View of an ore storage building at the Alie Bel Mine, near Hancock (Chaffee County), Colorado. Shows a dilapidated wooden building with clerestory windows, tin roofs, and wooden ore chutes. The building is on a steep incline.
- Alie Bell Mine (Chaffee County, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Abandoned mines--Colorado--Chaffee County--1950-1960.; Mining--Colorado--Chaffee County--1950-1960.; Ore industry--Colorado--Chaffee County--1950-1960.; Wooden...
- 1954
- Santa Fe-Midland Depot. Colorado Springs
- View of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad and Colorado Midland Railway depot at Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. The depot is of rusticated sandstone with parapet, clerestory windows and overhanging eaves. Shows a freight house...
- Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Alie Bell mine near Hancock
- Dilapidated buildings from the Alie Bell mine are on either side of a dirt road near Hancock (Chaffee County), Colorado. The wooden ore storage building has clerestory windows, tin roofs and ore chutes. Across the road is a collapsed log building...
- Alie Bell Mine (Chaffee County, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned mines--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Chimneys--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Dirt roads--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Mine...
- 1950
- Voc. machine shop at medium security
- Inmates (one Black) at the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, use metalworking machinery under hanging, shaded flourescent lights. Wheeled tool carts are among vise mounted tables; a gas heater is on the interior block wall. Corrugated...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Metalworking--Colorado--Canon City--1940-1950.; Prisoners--Colorado--Canon City--1940-1950.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- [between 1940 and 1950?]
- Tabernacle, Rocky Ford, Colo. Hart-Hagann revival
- Interior view of a building identified as a tabernacle in Rocky Ford (Otero County), Colorado. Men pose near an altar or stage of a large room with a high ceiling and exposed rafters. American flags hang on timber pillars above rows of pews. The...
- Rocky Ford (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Rocky Ford--1910-1920.; Revivals--Colorado--Rocky Ford--1910-1920.
- 1914 February or March
- D.& R.G. wreck
- A man in a suit and hat poses beside derailed Denver and Rio Grande Railroad passenger cars at the site of a wreck in probably Colorado. The overturned passenger cars have clerestory vents and arches above the windows. Railroad ties are scattered...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1900-1910.; Railroad accidents--Colorado--1900-1910.
- 1909 June 27
- Littleton National Bank
- View of Littleton National Bank at 5734 South Prince Street in Littleton, Colorado; the brick building features obtuse angles and clerestory windows.
- Littleton National Bank (Littleton, Colo.)--Buildings--1970-1980.; Littleton (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Banks--Colorado--Littleton--1970-1980.
- 1973 March
- 3010 W. 16th, Denver
- View of an office building at 3010 West 16th (Sixteenth) Street in the North Capitol Hill Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The brick building has clerestory windows, oblique corners, metal shed roofs, and split level elevations.
- Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; North Capitol Hill (Denver Colo.)--1980-1990.; Office buildings--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.
- 1980 October
- 1521 Blake Street, Denver
- View of storefronts at 1521 Blake Street in the Union Station Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Pilasters, clerestory windows, and spandrels frame the windows, and the second floor has corbeled brick and stone trim. Adjacent business features...
- Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Union Station (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1980-1990.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.; Show windows--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.
- 1981 March
- 1808 Blake Street, Denver
- View of commercial buildings at 1808 Blake Street in the Union Station Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Features include segmented overhead doors, clerestory windows, and stone trim. Sign reads: "J. A. Hingeley Machine Co."
- Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Union Station (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1980-1990.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.
- 1989 December
- 1432-34 Macon Street Apartments, Aurora
- View of twin apartment buildings at 1432-34 Macon Street, in Aurora, Colorado. The three story brick buildings have clerestory windows above the entries, and rooftop areas with wide sunshades. A Pontiac four door sedan is parked at the curb.
- Aurora (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Apartment buildings--Colorado--Aurora--1980-1990.
- [between 1983 and 1990?]
- Elevations-west, south Synagogue Zera Abraham
- Elevations (front, side) for the Zera Abraham Synagogue, 1560 Winona Court, West Colfax neighborhood, Denver, Colorado, ca. 1959. The structure is characterized by a six sided "ziggurat" style stepped roof with skylight. The exterior walls are...
- Congregation Zera Abraham--Buildings--1950-1960.; Denver (Colo.)--1950-1960.; West Colfax (Denver, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Synagogues.
- 1959, November 20
- Elevations-north, south, east, west Frederick R. Ross Library
- Elevations (front, rear and sides) for the Denver Public Library, Frederick R. Ross Library (Ross-Broadway Branch), 33 East Bayaud Avenue, Speer neighborhood, Denver, Colorado, commissioned ca. 1949. The building is an example of a post WWII...
- Denver (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Speer (Denver, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Public libraries.; Denver Public Library Ross-Broadway Branch--Buildings--1940-1950.
- 1950, April 10 (plan); 1950, November 11 (revision)
- Perspective, first floor plan Epiphany Episcopal Church - Denver
- Perspective (color) and first floor plan for the Epiphany Episcopal Church, 100 Colorado Boulevard, Hilltop neighborhood, Denver, Colorado, commissioned by Reverend Robert A. Russell in the late 1930s. Although primarily unadorned, the structure...
- Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Hilltop (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Churches.; Episcopal churches.; Episcopal Schools.
- 1940, August 7 (plan); 1940, August 6 (perspective)
- Perspective-front Grossman residence
- Perspective (rear) for a post-WW II Modernist style residence at 460 Glencoe Street, Hilltop neighborhood, Denver, Colorado commissioned by T. A. Grossman in 1947. The design is horizontal in emphasis with the front view of the structure...
- Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Hilltop (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses.
- between 1947 and 1948
- Elevations Solar home at Mead Meadows
- The drawing shows the exterior elevations of a proposed solar house at South Elkhart Street, Meadow Hills neighborhood, Aurora, Colo., ca.1977. Commissioned by Mead Associates, Denver, Colo. the structure is a modern solar home design. The design...
- Mead Associates (Denver, Colo.)--Houses--1970-1980.; Aurora (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Meadow Hills (Aurora, Colo.)--1970-1980; Houses.
- [1977]
- Cherrelyn horsecar
- The Cherrelyn horsecar (streetcar) carried passengers between the intersection of South Broadway and Hampden in Englewood, Colorado, and the small community of Cherrelyn between 1894 and 1910. The route was one and one-half miles long; a horse...
- Cherrelyn (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Englewood (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Horse railroads--Colorado--Englewood--1890-1910.; Street railroads--Colorado--Englewood--1890-1910.
- [between 1894 and 1910?]
- Englewood
- First Federal Savings Bank in Englewood, Colorado, at 4301 South Broadway, has vaulting of girders, light brick walls with vertical white elements and a continuous clerestory window, steps leading to a central entrance, a low brick wall next to an...
- Englewood (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Banks--Colorado--Englewood--1950-1970.
- [between 1959 and 1970?]
- First Fed. Savings & Loan 5063, W. C. Muchow & Assoc. order, 63278.
- The newly-completed First Federal Savings Bank in Englewood, Colorado, at 4301 South Broadway, is illuminated at night. Light shines from the continuous clerestory window around the top of the walls and from the lower lever windows. Girders are on...
- Englewood (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Banks--Colorado--Englewood--1950-1970.
- [between 1959 and 1965?]
- Bishop J. H. Tihen dedicating St. Catherine's Catholic Church
- The Right Reverend J. Henry Tihen, bishop of Denver, wearing a miter and stole and holding a crozier, raises his hand and speaks at the dedication of St. Catherine's Church. He stand in front of double doors under a brick arch with American flags...
- Iliff (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Bishops--Colorado--Iliff--1920-1930.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Iliff--1920-1930.; Church dedications--Colorado--Iliff--1920-1930.; Tihen, J. Henry.
- July 31, 1927
- Church dedication
- The Right Reverend J. Henry Tihen, bishop of Denver, wears a miter and stole, holds a crozier, raises his hand, and speaks at the dedication of St. Catherine's Church. He stands in front of double doors under a brick arch, with American flags over...
- Iliff (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Bishops--Colorado--Iliff--1920-1930.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Iliff--1920-1930.; Church dedications--Colorado--Iliff--1920-1930.; Tihen, J. Henry.
- August 3, 1927
- Hotchkiss Fruit Co.
- An L-shaped building in Hotchkiss, Colorado, has "The Hotchkiss Fruit Company" on one part of the roof, and "Hotchkiss Fruit" on the other. A porch runs the entire length of the inside of the L, with a porch and clerestory windows below a gable...
- Hotchkiss (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Fruit industry--Colorado--Hotchkiss--1910-1920.
- [Between 1911 and 1918?]
- Diamond jubilee of the Cathedral parish, Denver, Colorado...1860-1935.
- Book created by Retired Reverend Monsignor Hugh L. McMenamin, LLD. for the Diamond Jubilee of the Cathedral Parish of Denver, Colorado. It covers the years of 1860 to 1935. Included in the book are sections dedicated to: Bishop Machebeuf, a...
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Denver, Colo.); Catholic Church Colorado.
- 1935
- 20th Street Gym and Bath House
- The 20th Street Gym and Bath House was built in 1911. The enclosed documentation was prepared to determine eligibility of this building for the National Register of Historic Places. The documentation includes official forms and photos.
- Historic preservation--Colorado--Denver.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver.; Architecture--Colorado--Denver--History.
- 1990-1997
- S.A. Grimm Block/Leland Hotel/Reed Apartments
- The S.A. Grimm Block, later known as the Leland Hotel and Reed Apartments, was built in 1890 by architect Adolph Homberg. The enclosed documentation was prepared to nominate this building for the National Register of Historic Places. The...
- Historic preservation--Colorado--Denver.; Historic buildings--Colorado--Denver.; Architecture--Colorado--Denver--History.
- circa 1992
- Brief histories of the Denver Public Schools
- Compiled for the administrative offices of the Denver Public Schools, this book contains brief histories for the majority of the Public Schools in Denver, Colorado up to they year 1952.
- Denver Public Schools--History.
- 1952
- Visit to University Park walking tour pamphlet
- Pamphlet of a walking tour of historic houses for the University Park neighborhood.
- Neighborhoods--Colorado--Denver--Tours.; Neighborhoods--Colorado--Denver--History.
- circa 1972-1987