Lower Downtown or LoDo
With over 100 restaurants, 30 art galleries, numerous loft apartments, clubs and boutiques, the neighborhood bordered by the Platte River, Speer Boulevard, 23rd Street and Lawrence Street has been transformed unlike any other in Denver. Homes for sale and a variety of real estate including popular loft style condo's scan along with a variety of homes for sale in Lower Downtown area can be viewed on this website.
LoDo is formerly an early frontier town, 1920s Market Street red-light district and 1970s warehouse center. Today LoDo now epitomizes ideal urban living. Wooden buildings destroyed by fire in 1863 resulted in LoDo's characteristic simple designs with red brick and arched windows. Once a robust transportation hub, stagecoaches carrying gold left the Wells Fargo Depot at 1338 15th Street and Union Station trafficked over 80 trains a day.
Today, the LoDo District, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c) 3 neighborhood marketing and advocacy membership organization created to preserve and protect the historic district. The B-7 zoned historic district is bordered by 14th Street, 20th Street, Wynkoop Street and the alley between Market and Larimer Streets
The 23 plus square block area of the original Denver is now called Lower Downtown Denver. In 1858, General William Larimer built his cabin and named his small settlement Denver City,after the governor of the Kansas Territory. Within 20 years, his settlement had grown in population (in 1860, the population was 4,749; in 1870, the population was 4759; and in 1880, the population grew to 35,629). In 1870, after the determined local citizenry had raised enough cash to finance the building of a spur of the Transcontinental Railroad from Laramie, Denver started in a boom cycle that would continue up to the Silver Crash in 1893.
Architecture Designs
The predominant architecture design in the Lower Downtown features Renaisannce Revival, Industrial Vernacular, NeoClassical, Art Deco, Nineteenth-Century Commercial.
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