Colfax: Metro Denver’s Most Famous (or Infamous!) Street
The Colorado State Library is located on Colfax Avenue, as is the State Capitol. It’s…
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The Architecture of the CU Boulder Campus
New to our library’s collection is Body & Soul: A Partnership of Architecture and Academics…
Time Machine Tuesday: Lakewood Turns 50
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Lakewood’s incorporation as a city, but its history…
State Capitol Tours
Summer is a great time to tour the State Capitol building. Whether you’re looking for…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Colorado State Board of Examiners of Architects
On April 26, 1909, the Colorado Legislature passed a law requiring architects to be licensed…
Time Machine Tuesday: The WPA in Colorado
During the height of the Great Depression, as banks failed, unemployment soared, and farm prices…
Time Machine Tuesday: The Colorado State Museum
Have you lived in Colorado long enough to remember when the State Museum was located…
Herndon Davis, Colorado Artist
You’re probably familiar with the Face on the Barroom Floor, the mysterious portrait of a…
Building History Research
If you’re the proud owner of a historic property, or if there’s a particular building…
Denver Landmarks & Historic Districts
Over the last few months you may have read the news articles about the proposed…
Time Machine Tuesday: Colorado Yule Marble
Lincoln Memorial. Did you know that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Lincoln…
State Government Facilities Planning
What is the State of Colorado’s vision for the future of its buildings? Although sometimes…
Time Machine Tuesday: Byers-Evans House Museum
Nestled between the looming structures of the Denver Art Museum is a hidden treasure, the…
Time Machine Tuesday: Creative Spaces
As housing prices go up and more and more people want to live in the…
Renovations at the Capitol
If you work or live near the State Capitol you have probably seen all of…
The Buildings of Auraria
The Auraria Higher Education Center (or Auraria Campus, as it is often known) is quite…
The Architecture of Jacques Benedict
In the first decades of the twentieth century, Victorian architectural styles gave way to newer…
Denver’s Most Haunted House
The Croke-Patterson-Campbell Mansion, a turreted sandstone castle at 11th and Pennsylvania in Capitol Hill, is…
Georgetown's Hotel de Paris
If you’re headed to the mountains this summer and are looking for some interesting history,…
Colorado’s Engineering Marvels
From bridges to dams to tunnels and beyond, Colorado has some fine examples of structural…