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This is where the downtown street grid meets the neighborhood street grid of the first Denver suburbs. The five points in the district's name refer to the vertices formed where four streets meet: 26th Avenue, 27th Street, Washington Street, and Welton Street. Five Points was the shortened name for the street car stop at this intersection.
The neighborhood is named for an elementary school located at 25th Avenue and Downing St. which was named after John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), an abolitionist poet and a founding member of the American Republican political party. Given the philosophy of Whittier, the neighborhood was ethnically integrated from its inception.
Ballpark District – an area that includes Coors Field and several blocks east, part of the Five Points neighborhood, and overlaps with RiNo; Burns Brentwood – a subdivision in southwest Denver, eastern portion of Harvey Park neighborhood; Crestmoor – an area near Crestmoor Park in the Hilltop neighborhood
One point of broad agreement is that Uptown Whittier, considered the heart of the city, could use a little love. Its last update was in the 1980s, including renovations after the 1987 Whittier ...
The Whittier City Council voted on Tuesday night to move forward with razing 83 ficus trees as part of a redesign of its commercial center despite backlash. Whittier to remove more than 80 ficus ...
Main Street America's local Main Street programs aim to revitalize downtowns and commercial districts through preservation-based economic development and community revitalization. The "Main Street Project" [ 1 ] was begun in 1977 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation with a pilot involving 3 towns: Galesburg, Illinois ; Madison ...
Mulberry Bend was considered one of the worst parts of the Five Points, with multiple back alleyways such as Bandit's Roost, Bottle Alley and Ragpickers Row. In 1897, due in part to the efforts of Danish photojournalist Jacob Riis, Mulberry Bend was demolished and turned into Mulberry Bend Park, an urban green space designed by Calvert Vaux. In ...
Five Points, like the Warehouse District, is one of Raleigh's historic gay villages. [1] A popular LGBT-friendly spot was opened here in the 1950s. [ 1 ] In the 1970s, The Moustrap, a gay bar and community gathering place for drag queens, lesbians, and transgender people, opened next to the Rialto Theater.