Researching OSR, found some cool info! The San Rafael area has been characterized as serving as a “kind of bridge, between the ‘old’ elite residential neighborhood around Curtis Park and the new, emerging elite neighborhood of Capitol Hill to the south”. Development in San Rafael proceeded from the western edge of the district along Washington Street eastward. By the mid-1880s sections of the neighborhood were being actively developed. The small lots in Horner’s Addition were filled with frame dwellings by the late 1880s, while Kountze’s Addition filled with small brick houses by 1893. Barth’s Addition was developed with brick homes spreading outward from the western portion of the subdivision. The neighborhood attracted citizens with a variety of social and economic backgrounds, with professions such as blacksmith, laborer, clerk, salesperson, attorney, and doctor. Architecturally, the district is significant for its historic housing which reflects the tastes as lifestyles of the middle class during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Denver, as well as for its religious structures which represent some of the finest ecclesiastical architecture found in the city. The district is notable for its collection of Queen Anne style homes which represent one of the most popular architectural styles of the late nineteenth century, as well as for excellent examples of other styles, including Italianate, Foursquare, Classic Cottage, and Dutch Colonial Revival. Several of the buildings in the district reflect the work of early Denver architects, including A. Morris Stuckert (2080 and 2084 Clarkson); John J. Huddart (2502-04 Clarkson and 2401 Emerson); Frank Goddnow (2307-09 Clarkson and 2135 Downing); Balcomb and Rice (four houses on East Twenty-third Avenue, 2076 Ogden, and 2096 Emerson); and Franklin Kidder (Christ/Scott Methodist Church, 2201 Ogden). The San Rafael Historic District is a unique and well-preserved collection of historic building representing Denver’s middle class housing and religious structures of the period 1874 and 1910, ranging from early vernacular frame homes to substantial architect designed dwelling and landmark churches. The district is notable for the cohesiveness of its built environment in terms of size, scale, building materials, and craftsmanship.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 01:52:29 +0000
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