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"Highlands" sometimes refers to two distinct but adjacent Denver neighborhoods that are highlighted in this map of Denver's official neighborhoods. Highland is a distinct city-center neighborhood in Denver , Colorado , United States, bounded by West 38th Avenue to the north, a Union Pacific Railroad line on the east, the South Platte River to ...
The Alamo Placita neighborhood is named for Alamo Placita Park. The street in the foreground is the northbound part of Speer Boulevard. Alamo Placita – the part of the Speer neighborhood north of Speer Blvd., and encompassing the Alamo Placita Historic district and parts of two other Denver historic districts
The properties are distributed across 48 of Denver's 79 official neighborhoods.For the purposes of this list, the city is split into four regions: West Denver, which includes all of the city west of the South Platte River; Downtown Denver, which includes the neighborhoods of Capitol Hill, Central Business District, Civic Center, Five Points, North Capitol Hill, and Union Station; and Northeast ...
Elitch Gardens was a family-owned seasonal amusement park, theater, and botanic garden in the West Highland neighborhood in northwest Denver, Colorado, United States, at 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street. For more than a century Elitch's was one of the most popular entertainment destinations in Colorado.
The City and County of Denver has a formal historic designation program that establishes Denver landmarks. These are designated by ordinances of Denver's city council. [ 1 ] The first three sites so designated, on January 10, 1968, are the Emmanuel/Sherith Chapel , Constitution Hall (site) (destroyed by fire in 1977), and the Governor's Mansion .
The site was "reserved" for park use prior to 1893 and was part of the original plan for the Highland Park residential development, but it was not acquired by Denver until 1899.The park lawns were installed in 1907 and by 1910 the park was fully improved with serpentine walkways, flowerbeds along the walkways, and a ring of trees around the ...
The neighborhood is bounded by Federal Boulevard on the east, I-70 on the north, Sheridan Boulevard on the West and 38th avenue on the south. It is bordered by the West Highland neighborhood on the south and is often erroneously grouped together with the Highlands. The neighborhood contains two lakes surrounded by parks, one eponymous ...
In 1896, the City of Highlands was annexed, and thereafter was known as "North Denver". As the city grew larger and the name "North Denver" started to encompass a larger area the new neighborhood was renamed Jefferson Park, from the 6.7-acre (27,000 m 2) park located