Colorado Porch

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city beautiful

3 Porch Notes tagged “city beautiful,” from counties across Colorado.

History and culture - Denver County

Why Denver built mountain parks a century ago

Denver's mountain parks were a deliberate early-1900s project, planned by noted landscape architects and built over decades to give city people access to the foothills.

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History and culture - Denver County

Civic Center was Denver's City Beautiful centerpiece

Civic Center Park between the Capitol and the City and County Building was built in the early 1900s as Denver's grand public space and is now a National Historic Landmark.

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History and culture - Denver County

Denver's tree-lined parkways are a designed historic system

Denver's grand boulevards and parks were planned together as one system in the early 1900s, and the whole network carries historic recognition.

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