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Denver Denver, C0 What’s Out There® Denver Denver, C0 Welcome to What’s Out There® Denver, organized Register of Historic Places. This was complemented in 1990 by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) with the listing of the Denver Mountain Parks, expanded in with support from national and local partners and 1995. More recently, industrial spaces along the South Platte presented through generous funding provided by the River are being developed as urban parks, catalyzing new National Endowment for the Arts Art Works program. investment in infrastructure. Today, in this semi-arid climate rich in natural, scenic, historic, and cultural values and a This guidebook provides details about more than 30 examples 200-mile-long backdrop of snow-capped mountains, Denver’s of the significant legacy of parks, parkways, and public open public parks total more than 6,000 acres. spaces that make the Mile High City an unrivaled destination. This guidebook complements TCLF’s interactive, online What’s Leveraging its unique geographic position at the convergence Out There Denver Guide (tclf.org/denverguide). The Guide, of the American grasslands and the Rocky Mountains, Denver one in a series of compendia of urban landscapes that reveal is an unparalleled setting for a diverse collection of designed and interpret a city’s distinctive landscape legacy, includes landscapes. In 1894, the “Park and Boulevard System for overarching narratives, maps, and historic photographs. Denver” plan by Edward Rollandet established a planning vision that was woven through neighborhoods, with parks and What’s Out There Denver dovetails with TCLF’s Web-based cultural institutions interconnected by a network of parkways. What’s Out There, the nation’s most comprehensive searchable Photo by Brian Thomson As part of that system, landscape architects George Kessler, database of historic designed landscapes. The database Reinhard Schuetze, and S.R. DeBoer developed some 4,000 currently features more than 1,800 sites, 10,000 images, acres of parks and more than 30 miles of parkways. Building and 900 designer profiles.What’s Out There is optimized for upon that framework, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.’s “Mountain iPhones and similar handheld devices, and includes What’s Park Preliminary Plan,” developed between 1912 and 1914, Nearby, a GPS-enabled function that locates all landscapes in identified more than 40,000 acres of rugged land for park the database within a 25-mile radius of any given location. development. This stretched Denver’s parks into the hinterland, The Cultural Landscape Foundation and offered an opportunity for the nation’s premier landscape On behalf of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, I appreciate architects, Olmsted Brothers, to develop a coherent system in Established in 1998, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) is a 501(c)(3) organization that educates and engages your interest in What’s Out There Denver and I hope you will the nearby mountains. the public in order to make our shared landscape legacy visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards. The enjoy experiencing the Mile High City’s unique and unparalleled organization’s vision is that the public values and supports culturally significant landscapes and the safeguarding landscape legacy. of this heritage for future generations. TCLF provides people with the tools to see, understand, and value landscape Development of parks within and surrounding Denver architecture, its practitioners, and our cultural landscape legacy in the way many people have learned to do with continued until the 1940s, and began again in the 1960s Sincerely, buildings and their designers. Through its website, lectures, outreach and publishing, TCLF broadens the support and and 1970s with urban renewal. Modernist and Postmodernist understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations. designs by Lawrence Halprin, Sat Nishita, Hanna/Olin, and I.M. learn more at tclf.org Pei Associates aimed to transform and reclaim the city with a diversity of new public spaces. In 1986 Denver’s extensive Charles A. 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