Denver, neighborhood by neighborhood
Guides to the areas I know best, written from the buildings out — when they were built, how they were built, and what that means for anyone buying one.
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Central Denver
This is an overview rather than a guide to a single place, because “central Denver” is not one neighborhood. The city recognises dozens of them, and they differ…
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Littleton
Littleton is its own city rather than a Denver neighborhood, with its own government, its own rules and a downtown that predates most of what surrounds it. It…
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The Highlands
The Highlands sits across the South Platte River, on the higher ground northwest of downtown. It is not one neighborhood and it is not one historic district. Several…
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Washington Park
Washington Park is one of the few Denver neighborhoods where the public space came first and the houses arranged themselves around it. That is not a figure of…