by Lisa Alonge | May 12, 2020 | 2-3 Miles, Neighborhoods, Northwest Neighborhoods, Urban
A Palette of Opportunity in Chaffee Park Denver’s military payroll grew from $3 million in 1939 to $152 million at the World War II’s end. No place is more evident of the impact of returning soldiers on Denver’s mid-century growth explosion than here...
by Lisa Alonge | May 12, 2020 | 2-3 Miles, Family, History, Neighborhoods, Urban
People, Libraries, and Civic Pride in Upper Denver’s UpDo Urban Hike The Civic Park Neighborhood together with its neighbor to the north, Central Business District (now called Upper Denver, or UpDo), is about people. With 10,000 residents in the ‘hood and...
by Lisa Alonge | May 12, 2020 | 2-3 Miles, Family, History, Neighborhoods
Rooted in Kindness, City Park West This weekly Denver neighborhood walk takes you through what I think might be the most kind neighborhood in Denver, City Park West. From open doors to inviting churches, the invite to enjoy this neighborhood came from several open...
by Lisa Alonge | May 12, 2020 | 2-3 Miles, Neighborhoods
Slaves, Squares, and Shakespeare in Denver’s City Park Little did I know that by walking through Denver’s City Park and its accompanying neighborhood I would learn about slave cargo, Shakespeare’s elm and Denver Squares. Yet this week’s Denver...
by Lisa Alonge | May 12, 2020 | 2-3 Miles, East Neighborhoods, History, Neighborhoods
Mosaics and a Mansion in Belcaro Bonnie Brae So let’s first set the record straight. Many people think that Belcaro and Bonnie Brae are two separate neighborhoods. Belcaro does not think Bonnie Brae is part of its neighborhood, and the residents of Bonnie Brae...
by Lisa Alonge | May 12, 2020 | 2-3 Miles, Family, History, Neighborhoods
Ghastly and Ghostly Cheesman Park Neighborhood Most Denverites have at least a vague glimpse of Cheesman Park’s history. Dead bodies. Moved bones. Missing skeletons. It’s a ghastly story of ghosts, the dead, and grass dents. But Cheesman neighborhood also...
