Streetcars made their first runs in Denver in 1872 and grew more popular until 1910, when Fords and Chevys began eating into their ridership. But along their tracks they left a legacy of little shopping districts that have since sprouted bars and restaurants — an amenity that real estate agents say is priceless today.

“The homes closest to those districts where you can walk to eat and entertain yourself, those move quickest,” says Jenny Apel with Nostalgic Homes/Compass in Highlands, who this Sunday will show an 1885 stone Victorian that came out of the ground just before the tracks arrived.

On Sunday, W. 32nd Avenue hosts its summer Highlands Farmers Market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. — a 3-block walk south from 3520 Newton Street, built for developer John Brisben Walker. Early on, Walker recognized the value of the stunning rock formations west of town near Morrison and launched a promotion that pivoted Red Rocks into a tourist attraction.

Walker had also founded River Front Park along the Platte near downtown — an early amusement park predating the original Elitch Gardens that opened in 1890 near today’s Berkeley (another streetcar neighborhood). Improbably, Walker was also an early publisher of Cosmopolitan Magazine, where he featured prose of Mark Twain.

At 3520 Newton, priced at $2.295 million, people will see a Victorian with five bedrooms, four baths, 4,253 finished feet, showing a striking stone exterior and a bright-and-white, modern makeover of its formal, family and bedroom areas.

It comes on a market among a six-month inventory of listings $2 to $3 million; but Apel says there are buyers who wait for these pieces of history. Last month a mile south, she sold a Victorian on Lowell, just over $3 million, to a buyer who had unsuccessfully bid for the exact same house three years before.

“My whole life has existed in and around West 32nd Avenue,” Apel says.

She bought her first personal home on W. 32nd Avenue at Perry Street — long since converted into the neighborhood’s Sassafras American Eatery. Now, as a patron, Apel says she gets a kick from dining in a restaurant where she once resided.

Further east along Highlands’ restaurant row are El Camino Mexican eats, Happy Bakeshop, Fire on The Mountain, a neighborhood favorite, Apel says, that sources cage-free chicken and free-range beef; Cerebral Brewing; Hello Darling café and cocktail lounge; and St. Killian’s Cheese Shop.

In Odell’s Bagel, Apel says, long wood counters and menu boards hark back to the owner’s recollections of bagel purveyors he recalls growing up back east. You’ll find house-whipped cream cheeses, house-made pickles, jams and mustards and a selection of tinned fish.

Apel and her husband Corey own Nostalgic Homes, with offices in a Victorian on W. 32nd at Newton. She recalls she has sold every home west along W. 32nd from her office to Sassafras at least once.