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Historic Denver | Architecture, Arts & Culture, Colorado, Denver, History, HousingHistoric Denver News – Spring 2023
March 2023
The Spring 2023 edition of the Historic Denver News included the 2023 Municipal Election candidate surveys, the story of a Japanese-American family who rebuilt their life after forced incarceration at Grenada Internment Camp, and a deep dive into the story of modernist architect Alan Golin Gass, who decided to landmark his home after seeing the destruction of other modernist structures.
Historic Denver | Architecture, Arts & Culture, Colorado, Denver, History, Housing, PreservationHistoric Denver News – Winter 2023
January 2023
The Winter 2023 edition of the Historic Denver News included a cover story about integration in Denver schools written by guest contributor Melanie Asmar of Chalkbeat, lesser known stories of Titanic survivors, and a deeper dive into the work of architect Richard Crowther, a pioneer in sustainable construction. Crowther's climate-friendly one-of-a-kind house was issued a Certificate of Demolition on December 12, 2022. Historic Denver works everyday to promote and protect Denver’s historic places and spaces to ensure a diverse, dynamic, and distinctive city — and that everyone should see themselves in the story of their city through its places.
Your Hub | Arts & Culture, Colorado, Denver, History, Preservation, ProfileDr. Renee Cousins King wins award for historic preservation
December 2022
Family, history, and community roots run deep for Dr. Renee Cousins King, a retired pediatrician who knows that buildings can be keepers of our stories. She is an associate clinical professor of pediatrics, an award-winning educator of medical students, and an accidental preservationist.
Insider | Colorado, Denver, Listicle, TravelI’m from Denver. Here are 10 things tourists should know before visiting the Mile High City.
November 2022
I’ve lived in Denver most of my life. Tourists overdo it by over-imbibing and ignoring the altitude. Denver isn’t a monoculture for craft beer or marijuana tourism and it doesn’t snow all the time.
Colorado Life | Arts & Culture, Colorado, Denver, Denver Events, Event Round-up, TravelColorado Life Magazine November/December 2022 – Go. See. Do.
November 2022
Colorado events highlighted in November and December 2022 include the Holiday Headframe Lighting in Teller County, Meeker's Skijor Races, and Colorado Uncorked, where guests can taste all 12 of the wines in the Governor's Cup Collection.
Historic Denver | Architecture, Arts & Culture, Colorado, Denver, History, Housing, PreservationHistoric Denver News – Fall 2022
October 2022
The Fall 2022 edition of the Historic Denver News covered the legacy of the incredible award winners of the 52nd Annual Dinner & Awards Program, a guest article on Denver author Mary Coyle Chase by an intern at the Molly Brown House representing the Diversity in the Arts Internship, and a church in the Sunnyside neighborhood that was a first home for both Quakers and Ukrainian Catholics in Colorado. Historic Denver works everyday to promote and protect Denver’s historic places and spaces to ensure a diverse, dynamic, and distinctive city — and that everyone should see themselves in the story of their city through its places.
Historic Denver | Architecture, Arts & Culture, Colorado, Denver, History, Housing, PreservationHistoric Denver News – Summer 2022
July 2022
The Summer 2022 edition of the Historic Denver News covered a community-led preservation effort in the Elyria neighborhood, a grant award for Black-owned gathering space and restaurant Welton Street Cafe, and a notice that Colorado's Chicano/a/x murals were added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2022 list of the 11 Most Endangered Places in the country. Historic Denver works everyday to promote and protect Denver’s historic places and spaces to ensure a diverse, dynamic, and distinctive city — and that everyone should see themselves in the story of their city through its places.
Colorado Life | Arts & Culture, Colorado, Denver, Feature, History, Public Art, TravelRiNo: Where art touches everything
May 2022
Change is a constant in RiNo, which is short for River North. The other constant is art.
Colorado Life | Arts & Culture, Colorado, Cover Story, Denver, Feature, TravelThe magic of Meow Wolf
January 2022
It’s obvious this will be different from a standard museum experience from the moment visitors arrive. Someone clad in a spacesuit calls out through an amplified headset, “Welcome to Convergence Station. Have you traveled with QDOT before?” QDOT, we learn, is the Quantum Department of Transportation, the agency tasked with guiding “travelers” through this strange spot...
Colorado Life | Colorado, Cover Story, Denver, Feature, Food & Beverage, History, Hotels, TravelThe Brown Palace
November 2021
POP! The telltale sound of a champagne bottle uncorking reverberates in the hotel’s eight-story atrium lobby. People young and old — the tattooed, the golf-shirted and three blondes clad in yoga pants and perfect makeup — cross paths heading for elevators, restaurants and a large revolving door leading out into downtown Denver. Ladies in big hats sip tea, while an immaculately-dressed Cuban man in a Panama hat checks in for a stay celebrating his 55th birthday. This is a day in the life of the Brown Palace Hotel & Spa, where similar scenes have played out since the hotel opened in 1892.
Pro Bono Work | Denver, Education, Email, Volunteer/Pro BonoGarden Place Student Recruitment
February 2021
We're Garden Place Academy and we've grown leaders and lifelong learners since 1904. Certified in both Transitional Native Language Instruction and Montessori, we're a neighborhood public school option serving traditional learners, hands-on students, and native Spanish speakers in grades ECE through 6th.
Colorado Life | Business, Colorado, Cover Story, Denver, Feature, History, TravelNEON: Denver’s Gordon Sign lights the night
May 2020
The happy chef, who first flipped his hotcakes in 1955, beckons diners to Denver’s Colfax Avenue 24 hours a day — a neon sign with the added oomph of animation. This beauty, and many others, was made by Gordon Sign, the oldest continuously operating sign company in America.
Colorado Life | Colorado, Denver, Front of Book, HistoryDenver’s 16th street ‘doors to nowhere’
September 2019
Perched above Denver’s 16th Street Mall are two mysterious doors. The doors lead nowhere; opening them would mean tumbling down thirty feet to the road below. Yet these obscure doors used to be the main commercial entrance to each building. How is that possible?
Colorado Life | Colorado, Cover Story, Denver, Feature, Food & Beverage, Recipes, TravelThe Cherry Cricket
July/August 2019
Food and recipe multi-page feature spread for Colorado Life Magazine, a print publication exploring the Centennial State’s most fascinating stories, captivating characters, and spectacular scenery.
WideFoc.us | Blog Post, Denver, Food & Beverage, ListicleOur Favorite Denver Patios
September 2015
Autumn is officially here, though it began feeling like fall around Denver a couple weeks ago. The Broncos started their season, evenings are cooler, and Halloween swag went on-sale everywhere. We know no better place to enjoy the beauty of autumn than the Mile High City, especially when you’re doing so from the comfort of a lovely patio. These locales throughout the Denver metro have some of the WideFoc.us team’s favorite outdoor seating!