Knob Hill, Colorado Explained

Knob Hill, is a neighborhood of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States,^[1] and is located northeast of downtown Colorado Springs.^[2]

History

Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind

The Colorado Institute of the Education of the Mutes (now Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind) was founded by Jonathan R. Kennedy and opened on April 8, 1874. The school began with a Territorial appropriation of $5,000. It first operated in a rented house with seven students. Kennedy, who had worked at the Kansas State School for the Deaf, was the director of the school. He and his wife had children who attended the school. William Jackson Palmer donated land to build a permanent school on Knob Hill, 1miles east of Colorado Springs.^{[3] [4]} In 2014, there are 500 students across the state.

Union Printers Home

The Childs-Drexel Home for Union Printers was dedicated on May 12, 1892.^[5] It was run by the International Typographical Union to take care of ill and elderly patients.^[6] The home was bought by Heart Living Centers in 2014.^[7]

Tesla Experimental Station

The inventor Nikola Tesla's wireless power experimental station was located on Knob Hill at a site near the current Kiowa and Foote Streets, between the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind and the Union Printers' Home.^[8] It was built and operated in 1899 and was torn down in 1904.^[9] A street car came to Knob Hill, at that time at the edge of the prairie.^[10]

St. Francis Hospital

The St. Francis Hospital was built on Institute Heights at the east end of Pike's Peak Avenue, near the Knob Hill street car line.

Other

The Pikes Peak Gun Club was on Knob Hill near the city limits.

The Knob Hill Auction Company held monthly auctions on the hill to sell horses.^[11] Livestock was sold weekly on Knob Hill, where there was also a nearby cafe.^[12]

Annexation

In 1950, 3,612 people lived in Knob Hill.^[13] On June 14 of that year, Knob Hill was annexed into Colorado Springs and became the Knob Hill neighborhood.^[14]

Further reading

• Book: Kathleen Murphy Beatty. Phillippa Ormond Kassover. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The Knob Hill Neighborhood Survey. 1983. University of Colorado.
• Book: Colorado Springs (Colo.). Community Development Department. Colorado Springs (Colo.). City Planning Department. Knob Hill: Neighborhood Redevelopment Plan. 1984. The Department.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Knob Hill, El Paso County, Colorado . Geological Names Information System, US Geological Survey . October 13, 1978 . February 9, 2015 .
2. Web site: August 2008 . Colorado Springs Neighborhood . https://web.archive.org/web/20150210051746/https://www.springsgov.com/Files/NEIGHBORHOODS.pdf . February 10, 2015 . February 9, 2015 . City of Colorado Springs.
3. Book: Sherlock . Colorado's Healthcare Heritage . April 12, 2013 . iUniverse . 978-1-4759-8026-4 . 191.
4. Web site: 140th Birthday of CSDB . https://web.archive.org/web/20150210093930/http://www.csdb.org/articles/140th-birthday/ . February 10, 2015 . February 9, 2015 . Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind.
5. News: May 13, 1892 . Childs-Drexel Home . CDNC collection: image and transcript . Los Angeles Herald . November 5, 2013.
6. Book: The Typographical Journal. 1910. International Typographical Union.. 156.
7. Web site: New owners plan to keep status quo; Few changes for Union Printers Home . September 24, 2014 . The Gazette . E 3:1 . February 9, 2015 .
8. Book: Carlson . Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age . May 7, 2013 . Princeton University Press . 1-4008-4655-2 . 266–267.
9. Book: Peterson . Ramble Colorado: The Wanderer's Guide to the Offbeat, Overlooked, and Outrageous . Fulcrum Publishing . 2008 . 978-1-933108-19-3 . 36 . registration.
10. Book: Carlson . Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age . May 7, 2013 . Princeton University Press . 1-4008-4655-2 . 268.
11. Book: Knox . Growing Up to Cowboy: A Memoir of the American West . January 2002 . Sunstone Press . 978-0-86534-353-5 . 92.
12. Book: Knox . Growing Up to Cowboy: A Memoir of the American West . January 2002 . Sunstone Press . 978-0-86534-353-5 . 94.
13. Book: United States. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population: 1950: Number of inhabitants. 1972. U.S. Government Printing Office. 6:18.
14. Book: Hayward . Drinking and Driving in Colorado: A Guide to Colorado's Brewpubs . 1 November 2009 . Inner Source Designs . 978-0-9822571-1-1 . 116 . registration.