Tag: Historic
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WWII plane used in D-Day, other historic aircraft, on display this weekend at Englewood airshow
Before it took to the metro Denver skies on Friday morning, the C-47A troop carrier aircraft aptly named “That’s All, Brother” — as a warning message to Adolf Hitler — led the 800-plane armada on D-Day, dropping 101st Airborne Division Paratroopers behind enemy lines in Normandy, eventually finding its way to an aircraft junkyard in…
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LIFE | The living history of Cokedale, Colorado
Cokedale is nestled eight miles west of Trinidad where it began as a 100 man tent colony in 1899. By 1901 it was bought out by Guggenheims’ and proclaimed to be “a model coal camp”. Ruins of coking ovens can still be seen today across the highway 12. Today, around 130 people call Cokedale home,…
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LIFE | Bent’s Old Fort
Bent’s Old Fort is a national historic site in La Junta, Colo.. The two-story adobe fort was constructed in 1976 to bring back the history of the major trading post that rose in the 1830s. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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Metro Denver homebuyers see another drop in inventory
Buyers looking for homes in the metro Denver market found the cupboard historically bare in January, with about 10 times fewer homes available for sale than in a “normal” market, according to a Market Trends report released Thursday by the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. Only 1,184 single family homes and condominiums were available in the…
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Iconic downtown Denver Sports Castle building sold, developer has renovation plans
The Denver Sports Castle building at 10th Avenue and Broadway, after enduring years sitting vacant and a fair amount of abuse from protesters in 2020, has sold. Tom McLagan, executive chairman of Hyder Construction Inc. of Denver, bought the 45,330-square-foot building and plans to renovate it and seek National Register of Historic Places status. The…
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Denver City Council denies Channel 7 building landmark status
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver City Council voted unanimously late Monday not to designate the Channel 7 building at 123 E. Speer Blvd. a landmark. Though it’s likely the red, octagonal “brutalist” architecture-style building will be demolished to make room for an apartment building tower, the developer signed…
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Denver land use committee sends Channel 7 building landmark status to city council
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In a mostly procedural rubber stamp of the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission’s decision, Denver’s Land Use, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to send the issue of the Channel 7 building’s landmark status to the full city council. The council is scheduled to hear…