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The beloved thoroughfare at the heart of Denver, Sixteenth Street has always been the Mile-High Citys Main Street. Sixteenth Street got its jump start in 1879 when Leadvilles Silver King and Colorados richest man, Horace Austin Warner Tabor, came to town and built the citys first five-story skyscraper at the corner of Sixteenth and Larimer Streets. In coming years, Sixteenth Street became Denvers main retail center as shopkeepers and department store owners constructed ever-more impressive palaces, culminating in the Daniels and Fisher Towerthe citys 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.
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There are many people to thank for helping me tell the story of Sixteenth Street. I was inspired initially by Dr. Thomas J. Noel of the University of Colorado, Denver, who showed that it was possible to understand a citys history through the examination of a major street in his work Denvers Larimer Street: Main Street, Skid Row, and Urban Renaissance . The Tattered Covers Joyce Meskis deserves special thanks for not only contributing to Sixteenth Streets urban environment, but also for facilitating my connection with Arcadia Publishing.
At the Downtown Denver Partnership, Tami Door, Cassie Milestone, and Sarah Neumann helped me find images from Sixteenth Streets recent past, and the story would not be complete without their help. Ron Schwartz, Rob Mohr, Thomas J. Noel, and Ken Schroeppel allowed me to use images from their collections, for which I am very grateful. Thanks also to Kenton Forrest of the Colorado Railroad Museum, Bruce Hanson and Coi Drummond-Gehrig at the Denver Public Library Western History Collection, and Barbara Dey of the Stephen Hart Library at the Colorado Historical Society. At Arcadia, editor Jerry Roberts and publisher Devon Weston provided invaluable feedback.
Finally, thanks go to all of my friends and loved ones, who have put up with my singular obsession for several years; particular thanks to Matt Wallington.
The images in this volume appear courtesy of the Colorado Historical Society (CHS), the Colorado Railroad Museum (CRM), the Denver Public Library Western History Collection (DPL), the Downtown Denver Partnership, Inc. (DDP), the private collections of Rob Mohr (RM) and Ron Schwartz (RS), and others as noted. Photographers names are given if known.
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As a likely spot to serve as a supply camp for the misnamed Pikes Peak gold rush, Denver was founded in 1858 by Gen. William Larimer, who built a cabin at what would later become Fifteenth and Larimer Streets. For two decades, F Street (Fifteenth) was the most heavily trafficked connection between the citys principal business streets: Blake, McGaa (now Market), Larimer, and Lawrence. Many thought the town, with a population of 4,749 at the 1860 census, would not survive, and indeed, by 1870 it had only grown by 10 persons after a decade of declining momentum at the gold diggings.
In 1870, the towns fortunes changed when the Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific Railroads linked Denver by rail with the rest of the country. Business picked up, and Denverites began to build a city. One vital element was public transportation, and in 1872, the Denver Horse Railroad Company began operating a horsecar line. Running up Larimer Street from a railroad depot at Sixth Street in Auraria, the line turned onto Sixteenth Street and proceeded four blocks to Champa Street, where it turned again on its way to the Curtis Park neighborhood. The horsecar line created value for the property owners along its length, including those four blocks of Sixteenth Street, and while the great changes would not come until the 1880s, the seeds for them were planted in the 1870s.
Sixteenth Streets first two decades were relatively quiet. The blocks between Wynkoop and Lawrence Streets were a mix of lumberyards, livery stables, hardware shops, hotels, and a mint. The Denver Town Company had its office on the southern corner of Sixteenth and Larimer Streets. As one walked southeast past Lawrence Street, commerce gave way to domesticity, with many leading businessmen choosing the quiet thoroughfare for their homes (although the wealthiest preferred Fourteenth Street, Millionaires Row). Among the important names living on Sixteenth Street were John J. Reithmann, William Barth, George Symes, Dr. Henry K. Steele, and Dr. Frank J. Bancroft.
PACIFIC HOUSE AND DENVER THEATER, 1867. James Broadwell opened the Broadwell House on December 25, 1859, on the eastern corner of Sixteenth and Larimer Streets. A later operator renamed it Pacific House. At right, the Denver Theater occupies the northern corner of Sixteenth and Lawrence Streets. Operated by Jack Langrishe, the father of Colorado theater, it presented everything from Shakespeare to Uncle Toms Cabin . (DPL, X-23120.)
BROADWELL HOUSE, c . 1878. In 1869, James Broadwell retook control of the Pacific House and put his name back on it, adding a third story and wraparound porch. The hotels bar featured an alcohol-loving pet monkey named Jerry. The neighboring Great Northern Hotel on Larimer Street hints at the scale of what was to appear on this site not long after this photograph was taken. (CHS, 20004523.)
AMERICAN HOUSE, c . 1874. The American House was the height of Denver luxury when John W. Smith opened it in 1868 on the northern corner of Sixteenth and Blake Streets. Visiting dignitaries made it their Denver home, including Russias Grand Duke Alexis. Until the Windsor Hotel opened at Eighteenth and Larimer Streets in 1880, it was the citys most prestigious hostelry. (CHS, 10040054.)
INTER-OCEAN HOTEL, c . 1875. Diagonally opposite the American House at Blake Street, the Inter-Ocean Hotel was opened by ex-slave Barney Ford in 1873. Originally a high-class establishment, it survived into the early 1970s as a down-at-heel flophouse. The U.S. Mint is visible to the left of the hotel, with the first Good Block (built around 1868 and replaced in 1888) to its left. (DPL, Duhem Brothers, X-18608.)
U.S. MINT, 1868. Clark, Gruber, and Company built a mint on the western corner of Sixteenth and Market Streets in 1860, coining mint drops from miners gold for local circulation. In 1863, the federal government bought the operation for use as an assay office (but not for manufacturing coins). The building was remodeled, doubling its size and giving it a central, crenellated tower. (DPL, Z-5788.)
TRIBUNE BUILDING, c . 1875. Henry C. Brown, who would later build the Brown Palace Hotel, erected a block in 1868 for his Denver Tribune diagonally opposite the mint at Sixteenth and Market Streets. The building also housed the Bank of Denver. Between 1881 and 1883 the papers editor was Eugene Field, who became known for his humorous writing style and childrens poems. (DPL, Duhem Brothers, X-18582.)
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