Interpretive Exhibits

Century Garden area - eliptical shape 16’ x 18’

detail scale 1”=10’ site plan scale 1’=30’

COMMUNITY CENTURY GARDEN: Renewal/Spiral Timeline Where do you stand on the “century arc” of City Park Golf history?

DEDICATED IN SEPTEMBER 1913, CITY PARK GOLF TRANSFORMED—OVERTIME— A HIGH PRAIRIE PLAIN INTO A GREEN OASIS FOR RECREATION.

AS PART OF DENVER’S PARK AND PARKWAY SYSTEM, IT IS A LEGACY OF WILL

AND IMAGINATION GIVEN TO YOU FROM DENVER’S FIRST GENERATIONS OF

1904 Male golfers competed at Games of the III Olympiad

City Park Golf Course opens with nine-holes with opens Course Golf Park City 1913 CITIZENS, CIVIC LEADERS, LOCAL & NATIONAL DESIGNERS. 1899 Proposal to create golf course at City Park 1918

TODAY, YOU STAND AT A POINT IN DENVER’S HISTORY WHERE CITY PARK

Olmstead Brothers designed 18-holecourse opens 18-holecourse designed Brothers Olmstead GOLF COURSE IS BEING TRANSFORMED FOR THE NEXT GENERATION.

1914 1880s - 1890s As part of Mayor Robert Speer’s City Beautiful movement- school children plant trees in City Park on Arbor Day

2019 The reconfigured “People’s Course opens with new landscaping and trees—for the next generation

2017

CPGC closed for renovation Thomas Bendelow course and clubhouse open clubhouse and course Bendelow Thomas

1918 2001 1918 Clubhouse demolished, new one built ’S FIRST GENERATIO VER NS 1913 EN OF 1894 D CIT United States Golf Association formed OM IZ FR EN U S O , C

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1961 East Denver Golf Club member Judge C. Flanigan barred A from Cheery Hills Country Club tournament because of racial discrimination. The ensuing uproar resulted in Flanigan’s acceptance into tournament play in 1962 1882 G L City Park, the “People’s Park”established A 2001 A M I N

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N YORKN ST Plan View Source: The American City, January‐June, 1917, page 86. City Park E Denver Zoo PLAN VIEW: MAP & ARTIFACT VITRINE Thomas Bendelow, 1918 Bendelow course, The American City, Vol. 16, January–June, 1917 City Park Golf Course, 2014 2018 Redesign of City Park Golf Course First Tee CITY PARK GOLF COURSE – CENTURY WALL: 3/4" = 1'-0"

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PLAN VIEW: MAP & ARTIFACT VITRINE E Vitrine/Glass Cases: CPGC Legacy—maps, photos, and interpretive text CITY PARK GOLF COURSE – CENTURY WALL: 3/4" = 1'-0" noble erickson inc 2018

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D Timeline Back Wall: Century Wall / Golfing Legacy C Present Timeline Back Wall: Icon Golf Course and Transformation of CPGC & golf

Challenge visitors to place themselves on the City Present Timeline Fixed Panel: Current Park Golf Course timeline and assume their role in stewarding the course for future generations— The evolution of the game of golf at CPGC—links make the past relevant to people’s experience to parks, caddies to First Tee, building for the of the course today. future of the game and Denver.

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People’s Course Experience Gather photos and stories of each of the 18 holes Format with photos of the hole and golfer’s story of CPGC from the golfing community as a way in a PDF format or recorded and be accessible of recording people’s experience of the Thomas on iPads/website in the exhibit.

1952 - 1953 City Park Yearbook: 3.5 x 6.5 Bendelow Golf Course over time. Interview the current golfing community asking the questions: When did you first start playing at CPGC? What was your favorite hole? Why?

B Sliding Graphic Panel: People’s Course Experience

Jonathan Kaye signed photo: 8 x 10 x 3.75

F File Drawers: Flat, 2-D artifacts (displayed under glass below appropriate era)

Cycle of continuity & growth overtime Beneath the plans, in the pull-out file drawers, select existing 2-D items, documents, and smaller objects would be arranged in conjunction with the appropriate time period. These items would be displayed beneath protective plexiglas with photos and narrative and be viewable by pulling out a labeled drawer. G Display Shelves with Glass Fronts: Select trophies and 3-D artifacts

CENTURY WALL: Exhibit Panels