Alamo Placita Park Explained

Alamo Placita Park
Location:Roughly bounded by Speer Blvd., Emerson St., 4th Ave., and Ogden St., Denver, Colorado
Built:1927
Architect:DeBoer, S.R.
Architecture:Moderne
Added:September 17, 1986
Refnum:86002242

Alamo Placita Park is a city park located in Denver, Colorado that is the namesake of the Alamo Placita, Denver neighborhood.

The park was established in 1911 by condemnation of property owned by Denver mayor Robert W. Speer's Arlington Park Realty Company. Landscape architect and city planner Saco Reink DeBoer, hired by Speer in 1910, eventually designed the park, and landscape work began in 1927.[1]

The park is listed on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alamo Placita Park . Alamo Placita Neighbors Association . July 18, 2016.