Tag: Five Points
The True Story of Two Drifters Who Became Cannabis Pioneers
After the recent election, marijuana is now legal in some form in 25 states. Colorado, of course, was a trendsetter in this regard, legalizing...
Fire burns Catholic Workers out of Five Points. Development booms
DENVER -- The fire that coursed up the stairs of the Catholic Worker House last week, pushing 12 people into the streets, did far...
“What was done in the dark”
“I really don’t know what to say to you,” began the letter, written in neat script on prison-issue loose leaf paper.
“But let’s start by...
Statetap: In Denver, living on a building’s segregated ‘black floor’
Security is lax, to say the least, in the Five Points building, and Anthony Mitchell, along with every other African American tenant, was given an apartment on the fourth floor to rent. A property manager calls it "the black floor."
Global development hub finds home in historic Curtis Park horse barn
In the late 1800’s Denver public transit moved by horsepower. A team would pull a streetcar along level ground and up hills, then drivers loaded the horses into the cars themselves for the descent...