Curtis Park Home, History and Garden Tour

Champa Street near 24th Street, Denver CO

24 September, 2022

Description

This tour of Denver’s Curtis Park will showcase the architectural, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the neighborhood. Queen Anne, Italianate, Eastlake and Second Empire homes are interspersed with quaint cottages, duplexes, and rowhouses built for the City’s first golden age starting in the 1870s. Eight homes will be open to tour. Historic sites on the tour will include one of Denver’s earliest Jewish synagogues, Temple Emanuel (1882), Ideal Laundry (1910) now Montessori Academy of Colorado, the National Guard Armory (1889) that housed the Colorado State Militia, and the Savoy (1880s)performance venue. Contributing to the livability of Curtis Park, neighbors have worked for years to increase the tree canopy and green spaces in the neighborhood. The tour will include a look at those spaces and why they are important in historically marginalized communities. Tickets ($25/$20) at Historicdenver.org