Quadrant Quest: Southwest---6/10/25
Tuesday, June 10, 10 am - 3 pm
Bus Tour = Easy
Guide: Michael Vincent
We’ve broken Denver into four quadrants, and our quest is to see them all! For our next one, we’re looking into the southwest. The face of New Suburbia sprang up like magic to the southwest when Denver became a city and county in 1902. Eventually, Jefferson and Arapahoe Counties would fight back against Denver’s seeming rapaciousness, halting the city’s expansion in the 1970s. From its first post-1902 residential annexation, in 1943, until the Poundstone Amendment halted it all in 1974, the city doubled in size. Much of that doubling happened right here in southwest Denver. Almost all of the farmsteads and landscape that were here before suburbia blossomed were obliterated, bulldozed away in favor of a new paradigm. Our odyssey will seek out those remnants of the olden times still left to us while still honoring the best and brightest of what the new mode has brought us. Today, southwest Denver is, once again, an outsider. Currently, the other three diagonal directions in Denver are enjoying renewed investment and interest from a new generation returning to the city’s core or coming to Denver for the first time. As before, southwest Denver is not much a part of that renewal. We’ll see what Loretto Heights brings. Once southwest Denver comes back into the city’s collective psyche, perhaps some of the modern offerings will be wiped away in their turn.
Starts at the SpringHill Suites by Marriott Denver Downtown. Includes guide interpretation and coach transportation with a stop for lunch at your own cost.
Tuesday, June 10, 10 am - 3 pm
Bus Tour = Easy
Guide: Michael Vincent
We’ve broken Denver into four quadrants, and our quest is to see them all! For our next one, we’re looking into the southwest. The face of New Suburbia sprang up like magic to the southwest when Denver became a city and county in 1902. Eventually, Jefferson and Arapahoe Counties would fight back against Denver’s seeming rapaciousness, halting the city’s expansion in the 1970s. From its first post-1902 residential annexation, in 1943, until the Poundstone Amendment halted it all in 1974, the city doubled in size. Much of that doubling happened right here in southwest Denver. Almost all of the farmsteads and landscape that were here before suburbia blossomed were obliterated, bulldozed away in favor of a new paradigm. Our odyssey will seek out those remnants of the olden times still left to us while still honoring the best and brightest of what the new mode has brought us. Today, southwest Denver is, once again, an outsider. Currently, the other three diagonal directions in Denver are enjoying renewed investment and interest from a new generation returning to the city’s core or coming to Denver for the first time. As before, southwest Denver is not much a part of that renewal. We’ll see what Loretto Heights brings. Once southwest Denver comes back into the city’s collective psyche, perhaps some of the modern offerings will be wiped away in their turn.
Starts at the SpringHill Suites by Marriott Denver Downtown. Includes guide interpretation and coach transportation with a stop for lunch at your own cost.
Tuesday, June 10, 10 am - 3 pm
Bus Tour = Easy
Guide: Michael Vincent
We’ve broken Denver into four quadrants, and our quest is to see them all! For our next one, we’re looking into the southwest. The face of New Suburbia sprang up like magic to the southwest when Denver became a city and county in 1902. Eventually, Jefferson and Arapahoe Counties would fight back against Denver’s seeming rapaciousness, halting the city’s expansion in the 1970s. From its first post-1902 residential annexation, in 1943, until the Poundstone Amendment halted it all in 1974, the city doubled in size. Much of that doubling happened right here in southwest Denver. Almost all of the farmsteads and landscape that were here before suburbia blossomed were obliterated, bulldozed away in favor of a new paradigm. Our odyssey will seek out those remnants of the olden times still left to us while still honoring the best and brightest of what the new mode has brought us. Today, southwest Denver is, once again, an outsider. Currently, the other three diagonal directions in Denver are enjoying renewed investment and interest from a new generation returning to the city’s core or coming to Denver for the first time. As before, southwest Denver is not much a part of that renewal. We’ll see what Loretto Heights brings. Once southwest Denver comes back into the city’s collective psyche, perhaps some of the modern offerings will be wiped away in their turn.
Starts at the SpringHill Suites by Marriott Denver Downtown. Includes guide interpretation and coach transportation with a stop for lunch at your own cost.