Denver's Sixteenth Street (Images of America) - Softcover

Barnhouse, Mark A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 073858102X ISBN 13: 9780738581026

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

The beloved thoroughfare at the heart of Denver, Sixteenth Street has always been the Mile-High City's Main Street. Sixteenth Street got its jump start in 1879 when Leadville's Silver King and Colorado's richest man, Horace Austin Warner Tabor, came to town and built the city's first five-story skyscraper at the corner of Sixteenth and Larimer Streets. In coming years, Sixteenth Street became Denver's main retail center as shopkeepers and department store owners constructed ever-more impressive palaces, culminating in the Daniels and Fisher Tower―the city's tallest building for five decades and the symbol of the city. In the second half of the 20th century, Sixteenth Street saw major changes, including the creation of one of the most successful pedestrian malls in the country, an archetype of the power of great urban places and an inspiration to other cities, large and small.

About this title

About the Author

Author Mark A. Barnhouse has been fascinated with Sixteenth Street ever since, as a small boy, he attended “Breakfast with Santa” in the Denver Dry Goods Tea Room. A graduate of the University of Colorado Denver's history program, he has combed through a variety of archives for the most interesting images of Sixteenth Street, many never before published.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 073858102X
• ISBN 13: 9780738581026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128