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CIVIC CENTER
13 Ave. at Broadway

Civic Center, with its border of city, state, federal and commercial office buildings, is the core legacy of Denver’s City Beautiful era championed by Mayor Robert W. Speer in the early 1900s. The grand plan for this city center was meant to turn dusty, drab, unplanned Denver into "Paris on the Platte."

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From Denver’s Landmarks and Historic Districts: A Pictorial Review, by Thomas J. Noel. University Press of Colorado, 1996.

St. Thomas photo credit: Rutherford Witthus