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In 1887, a decimal grid was imposed. Instead of counting addresses up arbitrarily along a direction, this system specified a "hundred block" for each street. For example, First Street is the 100 block, with all addresses on any named street between First and Second Streets ascending from 100 (nearest First Street) to 199 (nearest Second Street).
Golden Triangle – an area incorporating many of Denver's civic and cultural institutions, closely corresponds with the Civic Center neighborhood; Hampden Heights; LoDo – "Lower Downtown," the original settlement of Denver, with many of its oldest buildings, overlapping parts of the Union Station and Five Points neighborhoods
Through a variety of measures the area's air quality was improved and in 2002 the EPA designated the area in compliance with all federal health-based air quality standards. Denver was the first major city in the United States to reach compliance with all six of these standards after previously violating five of them. [9]
Capitol Hill highlighted on this map of Denver's neighborhoods. The neighborhood is located just southeast of Denver's Central Business District (CBD) in a well-established residential neighborhood, with commercial centers located along major traffic routes (such as Colfax Avenue and Broadway) and interior arterials (such as East 13th and 14th Avenues).
The neighborhood is located near the geographic center of the City and County of Denver and is a mixture of dense urban development and tree lined residential streets. It is bounded by the Cherry Creek on the south, East Sixth Avenue to the north, University Boulevard and Colorado Boulevard ( Colorado State Highway 2 ) on the west and east ...
Colfax Avenue is the main street that runs east–west through the Denver metropolitan area in Colorado. As U.S. Highway 40, it was one of two principal highways serving Denver before the Interstate Highway System was constructed. In the local street system, it lies 15 blocks north of the zero meridian (Ellsworth Avenue, one block south of 1st ...
Baker is an area of 955 acres (3.86 km 2), approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Denver Civic Center, generally defined by these boundaries: on the north by West 6th Avenue, on the east by Broadway, on the south by West Mississippi Avenue, and on the west by the South Platte River. [2] [3]
Curtis–Champa Streets Historic District is located in Denver, Colorado. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and is bounded by Arapahoe, 30th, California, and 24th Sts. covering 870 acres and 356 buildings. [ 2 ]