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City Beautiful Movement

Sundial Plaza/Cranmer Park

The land for Cranmer Park was acquired in 1908, with the first recorded reference to any site development occurring in 1923, when construction began on the terrazzo terrace. At the time the park was named Mountain View Park given that the platform offers an excellent...

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City Ditch

City Ditch is one of the oldest and most significant surviving pieces of early infrastructure in the Denver metropolitan area. Begun in the early 1860s and completed between 1864 and 1867, the 26-mile hand-dug irrigation ditch brought water from the South Platte River...

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Civic Center Park

Designed to be the cultural and governmental hub of Denver, Civic Center is one of the nation’s finest and most intact examples of City Beautiful-style park design.  At the civic heart of Denver, this spacious plaza, surrounded by monuments,  public structures, and...

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