Lincoln Park, Denver

Last updated
Lincoln Park
Neighborhood
Lincolnparkdenver.jpg
The park from where the neighborhood is named
CountryUnited States of America
StateColorado
CityDenver
Population
 (2010) [1]
  Total6,119
ZIP Codes
80204

Lincoln Park is a neighborhood and public park close to downtown Denver, Colorado and the location of the Art District on Santa Fe. The neighborhood is one of Denver's oldest and is just to the south of the area where Denver was first settled in the 1850s. Many houses date from about 1900. The neighborhood is sometimes called "La Alma/Lincoln Park" [2] or the West Side. [3]

Contents


Geography

The boundaries of the neighborhood are 6th Avenue at the south end, West Colfax Avenue at the northern end, Cherry Creek on the east side and the South Platte River on the west side. Interstate 25 runs north-south through the western part of the neighborhood.

Housing in the neighborhood includes many single family detached houses, including two-story brick Victorians, row houses, duplexes, brick bungalows and one-story stucco houses. Prominent housing developments include the Parkway Center apartment and condominium complex, with 1,050 units, at 12th and Galapago Street, Denver Tower Complex with condos, supermarket and offices (both fronting on Speer Boulevard from 14th to 12th).

The North Lincoln Park public housing facility, completed in 1996, replaced a dilapidated housing complex built in the 1950s. A more extensive update is planned for the remaining South Lincoln Park Homes starting in 2010, using a grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This new project will create 900 units of mixed-income housing, and provide space for an open-air farmer's market. [4] [5]

Demographics

Based on data from 2000 for the combined Auraria and Lincoln Park neighborhoods, the racial makeup of the neighborhood is 32.38% White, 7.23% African American, 3.97% Asian, 1.51% Native American. Hispanic or Latino of any race is 52.47% of the population. [6] [ better source needed ] The crime rate and poverty rate are also much higher than city and national averages. The crime rate is 196 incidents per 1,000 people and a poverty rate of 37.64%. [6] [ better source needed ]

Arts and culture

Institutions in the neighborhood include Museo de las Americas on Santa Fe Drive, the region's first museum dedicated to the art and culture of Latinos; Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver's contemporary art gallery and learning lab; Denver Health hospital complex; Denver West High School, the Asian and Hispanic Chambers of Commerce; the Buckhorn Exchange, established in 1893, holds the state's first liquor license; [7] and Sunken Gardens Park along Speer Boulevard. A former courthouse and district attorney's office at the intersection of Speer Boulevard and Colfax Avenue was renovated into a Latino cultural and business center. [8] Venerable Boulder, Colorado based community radio station KGNU opened a studio at 7th and Kalamath in 2006, when they began broadcasting in Denver on 1390 AM, located together with noncommercial media partner, Open Media Foundation. [9]

The Denver Civic Theater on Santa Fe Drive was opened in 1921 as a cinema house, one of Denver's first silent movie theaters. [10] The building was later used for various purposes (even as a meatpacking plant), before it was eventually renovated in 1993 as a neighborhood arts center containing two theaters (one with 332 seats, another with 134) and an art gallery. The venue has been used by local playwrights and a resident performance company for dramatic productions, [8] and in 2010 became the new home of Su Teatro.

Within the neighborhood is Lincoln Park itself, located at Mariposa St. and West 11th Avenue. The park has a basketball court, outdoor pool, recreation center, softball field, grass infield, lighted softball field, tennis court, and a sand volleyball court. [11] Across from the park is the Denver Inner City Parish, a grassroots, humans services non-profit agency providing community services, including a food pantry, basic necessities, seniors programming, and La Academia, their school for at-risk youth, to area residents since 1960. [12]

Denver's Art District on Santa Fe between 6th and 12th Avenues (its primary retail and commercial corridor), [8] includes more than 40 galleries, restaurants and shops. The "First Friday Art Walk" and the "Collectors' Night" are monthly events in the district. [13]

Transportation

The RTD's light rail line runs north-south through the neighborhood and includes a station located at 10th Avenue and Osage Street.

Historic places in Lincoln Park

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Auraria, Denver</span> Early neighborhood in Denver, Colorado

Auraria was a small mining settlement in the Kansas Territory in the United States. Today it survives in its original location as a neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, south of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">North University Park, Los Angeles</span> Neighborhood of Los Angeles in California, United States of America

North University Park is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. Located just north of the University of Southern California, North University Park contains two historic districts that are both on the National Register of Historic Places: The North University Park Historic District and the Menlo Avenue–West Twenty-ninth Street Historic District.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Capitol Hill, Denver</span> Neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Located in the city and county of Denver, Colorado, the Capitol Hill neighborhood is bordered by Broadway, Downing Street, Colfax Avenue, and Seventh Avenue, which carry large volumes of traffic around the neighborhood. It is technically located in East Denver which begins immediately east of Broadway, the neighborhood's western boundary. Many consider the Cheesman Park neighborhood to be a part of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, but as defined by the city, Cheesman Park is a separate neighborhood. Denver also recognizes a statistical neighborhood called North Capitol Hill, also known as Uptown by some residents. Colfax Avenue is the border between these two neighborhoods.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Denver Civic Center</span> Neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, USA

The Denver Civic Center is a civic center area that includes two parks surrounded by government and cultural buildings and spaces. Civic Center is located in central Denver, Colorado, on the south side of Downtown Denver. Much of the area is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. A somewhat smaller area was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2012 as one of the nation's finest examples of the City Beautiful movement of civic design. Denver Civic Center lies partially within the north end of an official Denver neighborhood also named Civic Center. It includes the Colorado State Capitol building, in the west end of Denver's official Capitol Hill neighborhood, and it includes a few buildings in the south end of Denver's Central Business District.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Civic Center, Denver (neighborhood)</span> Human settlement in Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Civic Center, Denver is a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, United States. The northern part of the neighborhood overlaps partially with the Denver Civic Center, an area of parks and civic buildings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Park Hill, Denver</span> Neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Park Hill is a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, U.S. Located in the northeastern quadrant of the city, it is bordered by Colorado Boulevard on the west, East Colfax Avenue on the south, Quebec Street on the east, and East 52nd Avenue on the north. The entire Park Hill neighborhood is located in the area known as East Denver. It is further divided by the City and County of Denver into three administrative neighborhoods, South Park Hill, North Park Hill, and Northeast Park Hill.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cherry Creek, Denver</span> Neighborhood in Denver, Colorado

Cherry Creek is a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, in the United States. It has many newer residences mixed in with some of Denver's older homes.

Saco Rienk DeBoer was a Dutch landscape architect and city planner. He was born on September 7, 1883, in Ureterp, Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands to architect Rienk Kornelius De Boer and avid gardener Antje Dictus Benedictus. He studied engineering and passed the Junior Engineer (surveyor) exam. He went on to study landscape architecture at The Royal Imperial School of Horticulture in Germany. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis, on the advice of doctors him to return home to Ureterp where he opened an office. His symptoms worsened in the summer of 1908, on doctor and family advice he emigrated to the United States in October 1908 be cured at the Dutch operated Bethesda Sanatarium in Maxwell, NM. In 1909 when Bethesda Sanitarium moved to Denver, he moved with it, planning the landscaping for the new building. He became the official Landscape Architect of Denver from 1910 to 1931. He also designed the planned community of Boulder City, Nevada. In 1919, he joined with another Dutchman, M. Walter Pesman, to form a partnership. Together their projects were many, among them the landscaping of both sides of Speer Boulevard in Denver, and two early and innovative Colorado subdivisions, Bonnie Brae in Denver and The Glens in Lakewood, both of which feature winding streets and multiple small "pocket parks."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Geography of Denver</span> Climate, neighborhoods and infrastructure of Denver

The City and County of Denver, Colorado, is located at 39°43'35" North, 104°57'56" West in the Colorado Front Range region. The Southern Rocky Mountains lie to the west of Denver and the High Plains lie to the east.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jefferson Park, Denver</span>

Jefferson Park is a neighborhood and public park that overlooks Downtown Denver, Colorado from its perch across Interstate 25 (I-25). It is located in the area that is called North Denver. Views east from Jefferson Park take in Elitch Gardens Theme Park, The Children's Museum, Denver's Downtown Aquarium, Pepsi Center, the REI flagship store and other attractions in Downtown's Central Platte Valley. Downtown Denver and the Central Platte Valley are quickly accessed from Jefferson Park, using the 23rd Avenue overpass on I-25 and Water Street. In addition, the Light Rail C-Line is located by Empower Field at Mile High in the southern part of the neighborhood.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Highland, Denver</span>

Highland is a distinct city-center neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, United States, bounded by West 38th Avenue to the north, a Union Pacific Railroad line on the east, the South Platte River to the southeast, Speer Boulevard on the south, and Federal Boulevard on the west. The Highlands is sometimes used to refer to two separate city-center neighborhoods in Denver; Highland and West Highland, although the two neighborhoods are distinct. Highland and West Highland are both in the area that is referred to as the Northside. Highland is located immediately northwest of downtown. Note that the Highland neighborhood association has a slightly different definition with the easternmost boundary stopping at I-25. And the West Highland neighborhood to the immediate west of Highland, with the borders of 38th and 29th Avenues on the north and south and Federal and Sheridan Boulevards on the east and west. To distinguish between its immediately adjacent neighbor, West Highland, Highland is sometimes referred to as East Highland, Lower Highland or LoHi. The two together are casually called "the Highlands," a term which often falsely encompasses other Northwest Denver neighborhoods such as Jefferson Park, Sunnyside and Berkeley. Realtors have particularly pushed the inclusion of the recently gentrified Berkeley, located directly north of West Highland, as part of the Highlands, sometimes going so far as to refer to Berkeley and parts of Sunnyside as the "Upper Highlands". To add further confusion, within the Highlands neighborhoods there are several historic designations of various degrees, including Potter Highlands, Scottish Highlands and Highlands Park.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">City Park, Denver</span> Park and neighborhood in Colorado, US

City Park is an urban park and neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. The park is 330 acres (1.3 km2) and is located in east-central Denver. The park contains the Denver Zoo, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Ferril and Duck Lakes, and a boathouse. City Park is also the name of the neighborhood that contains the park, though the park is the vast majority of the neighborhood. To the immediate north of the park is the City Park Golf Course. City Park is the largest park in Denver.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Street system of Denver</span> Dual street grid system in Denver, CO

The oldest part of Denver, Colorado, now the neighborhoods of Auraria Campus, LoDo, much of downtown, and Five Points, is laid out on a grid plan that is oriented diagonal to the four cardinal directions. The rest of the city, including the eastern part of downtown, is laid out primarily on a grid oriented to the cardinal directions. In this larger grid, from east to west, there are generally 16 city blocks per mile, except between Zuni Street and Lowell Boulevard in west Denver. From north to south, there are typically eight blocks per mile, although there are many areas with more blocks per mile. Addresses follow a decimal system, with addresses advancing by one hundred at each cross street.

Speer is the official name for the Denver neighborhood bounded by 7th Avenue (north), Broadway (West), Alameda Avenue (South) and Downing Street (East). The northeast portion northeast of Speer Boulevard is generally referred to as Alamo Placita due to a local park and historic district of this name.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">West Colfax, Denver</span>

West Colfax is a neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The neighborhood is located in the West Denver area. In 2015 the population of the neighborhood was 9,120, and there were 4,055 housing units.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Colorado State Highway 88</span> State highway in Colorado, United States

State Highway 88 (SH 88) is a state highway located within the Denver Metropolitan Area in the U.S. state of Colorado. Spanning 19.171 miles (30.853 km), the highway travels through the City and County of Denver and Arapahoe County. SH 88 begins at Colfax Avenue in Denver and heads south along Federal Boulevard until it reaches Belleview Avenue, where it continues east until it reaches Interstate 25 in the Denver Tech Center. It then continues along Arapahoe Road until it reaches eastern terminus at SH 83 in Aurora.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hale, Denver</span>

The Hale neighborhood is a designated statistical neighborhood in the City and County of Denver, Colorado. Its boundaries are Colfax Avenue to the north, 6th Avenue to the south, Colorado Boulevard to the west, and Holly Street to the east. Most of the neighborhood is represented by the Bellevue-Hale Neighborhood Association, a registered neighborhood organization.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Denver's Art District on Santa Fe</span>

Denver's Art District on Santa Fe (ADSF) is an Arts and Cultural district, encompassing hundreds of artists, galleries, studios, theaters, and creative businesses along Santa Fe Drive in Denver, Colorado. ADSF is a 501(c)(3), nonprofit membership organization.

References

  1. "Census Neighborhood Demographics (2010)". City of Denver.
  2. "La Alma/Lincoln Park". Archived from the original on 2008-11-23. Retrieved 2008-07-06. La Alma/Lincoln Park neighborhood assessment.
  3. Sharon R. Catlett (2007). Farmlands, Forts, and Country Life: The Story of Southwest Denver. Big Earth Publishing. pp. 8–. ISBN   978-1-56579-545-7.
  4. Renewal set for Lincoln public housing project, Denver Post, August 12, 2009
  5. Denver's South Lincoln -- The Future Looks Bright Thanks to Recovery Funds, by Denver Councilwoman Judy Montero in the Huffington Post, September 21, 2009
  6. 1 2 "Contact Us - Gary Community Investments". www.garycommunity.org.
  7. Chuck Johnsons; Blanche Johnsons (2004). Savor Denver and the Front Range Cookbook. Wilderness Adventures Press. pp. 30–. ISBN   978-1-932098-09-9.
  8. 1 2 3 Web page titled "Neighborhood: La Alma/Lincoln Park" at the Downtown Denver Partnership Inc. website, retrieved September 29, 2008
  9. KGNU
  10. Web page titled "About Us" at the Denver Civic Theater website, retrieved September 29, 2008
  11. Web page titled "Lincoln Park" Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine , City of Denver Website, retrieved September 29, 2008
  12. http://www.dicp.org Web page titled "About DICP" retrieved 3/12/2018
  13. Home page Archived 2008-06-23 at the Wayback Machine for the Santa Fe Arts District, retrieved September 29, 2008
  14. "NPGallery Asset Detail".
  15. "NPGallery Asset Detail".
  16. "Smith's Chapel (Denver Inner City Parish) | History Colorado".
  17. "NPGallery Asset Detail".
  18. "NPGallery Asset Detail".
  19. "NPGallery Asset Detail".

39°44′07″N105°00′14″W / 39.73514°N 105.00396°W / 39.73514; -105.00396