Englewood Historic Preservation Society Preserving Englewood History

NEWSLETTER VOL.8 NO 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 Doug Cohn & Dave Paschal - Editors EHPS ~ 1000 Englewood Parkway ~ Englewood, Colorado 80110 Lindsey Runyan - Graphic Design

Fall EHPS Lectures SPECIAL Thank You! BOARD OF DIRECTORS EHPS LECTURE SERIES: MARY ARCHER Matt Crabtree Thank you for a really interesting President All lectures, unless otherwise noted take presentation on places to visit place the last Monday of the month at Paul Skizinski around our area and for the work 2:30 pm and again at 6:30 pm at the Vice President you do with people with dementia! Englewood Public Library. Jeff Barker Treasurer September 30th - Monday EHPS Office Hours CJ Cullinan Join Ida May Nicholl as she shares Secretary about unearthing historic glass bottles ENGLEWOOD LIBRARY from Colorado’s mining towns many If you haven’t been to our office Doug Cohn from the 1800’s. Some of these unique yet feel free to stop in during office Lecture Director bottles will be on display for viewing hours: Wednesdays from 1-3 PM! Ida May Nicholl and were all hand dug by the Nicholl We are looking for volunteers to help Outreach Director with archiving, contact Doug family in the 1960’s. Pat Lamoe at 303.587.2407. Board Member At Large October 28th - Monday Jack Ballard, famous local historian Ken Ohmstede CORRECTION Board Member At Large will share the story of Ivy Baldwin, one In the last EHPS Newsletter: of America’s premier aerialist, tightrope GOVERNANCE walker, aeronaut, and aviation pioneers. August 2019, volume 7, no. 12 ADVISORY He was the principal pilot of hot air the article featured on Page 3 COMMITTEE balloons at Ft. Logan the military base. entitled “Five Ways You Can Help EHPS Succeed” was written by Sharlene Barker Doug Cohn not Dave Paschal as Lindsey Runyan DUES Are Due! previously printed. Communications Director

Please RENEW your membership in our society! Contact Us: Englewood Historic You can use the form in this HistoricEnglewood.org Preservation Society newsletter or go to our website. [email protected] Mission We thank you for your 303-242-3257 To Preserve and share continued contributions. Please like us on facebook! Englewood’s history.

~ 1 ~ By Atom Stevens : Englewood’s Only Historic District and CJ Cullinan disagreement included Hawkins removing the internal Open Space for additional homes. For some homes, Hawkins employed Gerry Dion, a young architect who moonlighted with Hawkins to earn a down payment for a home for his own family in the neighborhood. Dion was also a student of the DU School of Architecture. Home builder Clyde Mannon was in charge of construction in the neighborhood, and he setup a workshop on-site for the construction of all the beautiful custom woodwork that went into the homes. (Mannon Arapahoe Acres represented the first trained in , and later developed Arapaho Hills at Mid-Century Modern Neighborhood Cambridge University in England, Littleton’s S. Lowell Blvd. and W. Berry in the country to be added to the and was Dean of the short-lived Ave.) The Acres workshop became a National Register of Historic Places. The Department of Architecture at the home itself when the neighborhood application and books “Arapahoe Acres: University of . was completed. Of the 124 homes, there 1949-1957” and “The Arapahoe Acres are a few that were designed and built The first homes were designed as part Historic District” were all compiled, by different architects and builders. of the Revere Quality House Program, submitted, and published by Historic a promotion created by the Revere Unlike the design of today’s homes, and Preservationist and resident, Diane Copper Company (founded by Paul consistent with mid-century modern Wray Tomasso. Historic Denver, Inc. Revere in 1801), to challenge builders idea, the houses in Arapahoe Acres and a State Historical Fund grant from and architects to use copper in home are meant to be experienced from all the Colorado Historical Society got the design in exchange for national sides as a single cohesive design, front- ball rolling. The neighborhood is an promotion of their neighborhoods to-back, outside-and-in. The area also exceptional example of modern design and designs. This program motivated has street signs designed by Hawkins principles inspired by Frank Lloyd Hawkins to collaborate with Sternberg. approved with partial initial funding Wright (“Usonian” style architecture) Sternberg also laid out the original by the City of Englewood. Some houses and the “International Style” modern street plan for the neighborhood, whose have been modernized inside and some architecture and design brought to the traffic-calming layout was innovative in have been totally changed of its original U.S. by immigrating professors and the 1940s. design. EHPS President Matt Crabtree students of the Bauhaus in Germany. has recreated the house numbers that More than this, they also exhibit an Sternberg and Hawkins parted ways were also designed by Hawkins to impressive level of craftsmanship inside early in the project over philosophical replace some deteriorated or missing and out, much of which has been well differences, and following this exit, numbers. preserved across the decades. Hawkins designed many of the homes in the neighborhood himself. A The neighborhood has a newsletter, Development of Arapahoe Acres began recorded interview of Sternberg talks social events, garage sale, and in 1949 by developer/designer Edward of Hawkins accepting a higher bid for participates in Englewood’s Neigh- B. Hawkins. The first homes in the one of Denver’s allegedly first bidding borhood Night Out; however, there neighborhood, built on the 3000 block war on the 1st house at the corner of is no Homeowners Association nor of South Marion Street, were designed Bates and Marion. Sternberg stated covenants. This neighborhood is by Denver Architect Eugene Sternberg. that the purchase price should be what not protected even with its Historic Sternberg was a Czech immigrant, was determined originally. Another Register designation. ~ 2 ~ Upcoming Fall Events AA... CONTINUED CEMETERY CRAWL JOSHUA SCHOOL TOUR Saturday: September 7th, 11AM October 5th - Saturday 9AM-NOON Join the Gilpin County Historic Society for the 31st Annual Cemetery Join EHPS in collaboration with the Crawl at Fairmount Cemetery, 430 Joshua School for a historic tour of S. Quebec St. Denver CO, 80247. the David W. Brown House located Tickets are $15 in advance through at 2303 E. Dartmouth Ave. The 18 www.eventbrite.com or $20 the Room Prairie Style Brown House is day of the event. Kids 12 & Under on the National and State Historic are FREE. For more information Registry. Participants are encouraged visit www.gilpinhistory.org or call to dress comfortably as there will be 303-582-5283. staircases on the tour. The tour will Photo By Lindsey Runyan also feature a continental breakfast and introduction of Joshua School’s The stewardship of these homes is programming. A limited number dependent upon the owners. Attempts of tickets are available for $10 to bring the neighbors together to each and can be purchased at protect the houses has happened historicenglewood.com. Tour will over the decades without a sustaining proceed, come rain or shine. effect. When I bought my home, there was a reference to such covenants Complimentary in the title and deed but since no action had been continued from the History 1960s, nothing is legally enforceable. Wray Tomasso’s book with Technical Tea Parties Papers by resident David Steers offers THURSDAY, September 19th information specific to these homes from 3:00-5:00 pm and guides owners. Protecting the facade of the homes and street lines 1400 E. Dartmouth Ave. are highly encouraged. (Barker Residence) This 70th Anniversary celebrated Sharing Englewood history CREEPY CRAWL TOUR with an Architectural Walking Tour, stories, snacks and tea. October 18th,19th,25th & 26th Home Tour, Street Festival, and the 3rd reprinting of the Arapahoe Space is limited. Fridays & Saturdays: 7PM- 9PM Acres: 1949-1957 books. Contact CJ Please RSVP to 303.378.5540 Get Your Ghost On! Join the Gilpin Cullinan if interested in purchasing a or [email protected] County Historic Society for the 11th book at [email protected]. Annual Creepy Crawl in Central ~ Atom Stevens of Denver ENGLEWOOD BLOCK PARTY City. This 60+ minute walking Week and AA Resident, CJ Cullinan. September 28th - Saturday tour features storytellers recreating 3PM - 9PM bone chilling murders, ghostly encounters, and other supernatural This annual street party brings together friends and families to tales, all based on true events from celebrate the Englewood community. Central City’s colorful past. $15 in Featuring food trucks, concerts, a beer advance through www.eventbrite. garden, kid’s activities, local vendor com or $20 for walk-ups. For more booths, and much, much more. information visit www.gilpinhistory. Admission is free! org or call 303-582-5283.

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