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The Community around Daphne's Deli
- The Alamo Placita neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, United States,
is bounded by Downing Street (east), Speer Boulevard (south),
Pennsylvania Street (west), 6th Avenue (north) west of Clarkson Street
and 7th Avenue (north) east of Clarkson Street. The neighborhood is
named after Alamo Placita Park which is located on the north side of
Speer Boulevard between Ogden and Emerson Streets.
- The area was developed primarily between 1889 and 1942 and
consists mostly of single family homes built in the following
architectural styles: Queen Anne (1889-1908), Foursquare (1891-1916),
Cottage (1900-1912), Arts and Crafts (1904-1929), Dutch Colonial
Revival (1892-1905), Mission Revival (1922-1932), and Tudor
(1930-1936).
- Alamo Placita Park was designed by landscape architect Saco
Reink DeBoer. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1986. The Cherry Creek News is Alamo Placita's neighborhood
newspaper.
- The Alamo Placita Historic District was created by the Denver
Landmark Preservation Commission in 2000, recognizing both the
architectual integrety of the area as well as its contributions to the
history of Denver.
- This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Alamo Placita".
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