Parks
Richtofen Place Parkway
This narrow, quarter of a mile parkway connects Monaco Street Parkway with the Montclair Park and the Montclair community. A school also shares the edge of the parkway with the historic Montclair neighborhood, part of which is a designated landmark district.
History
Frederick W. Ameter laid out general plans for this and other parkways in 1911 and 1912. Under the direction of DeBoer, he may well have been the landscape designer of Richtofen Place Parkway.
Historical Evolution
Richtofen Place Parkway remains in excellent condition. The spruce trees are presently overgrowing the median and reaching toward the roadway, but their natural form, an integral part of the initial design, has not been restricted by pruning.
The median was planted almost entirely with Colorado Blue Spruce, Ponderosa Pine, and Douglas Fir, making this one of Denver's fine evergreen parkways. Rectangular flower beds occur intermittently, planted parallel to the roadways between the evergreens. These flower beds are part of the Flower Trail designed and implemented by S.R. DeBoer beginning in the 1920s throughout the park and parkway system. DeBoer's Flower Trail includes not only flower beds as here, but flowering trees and shrubs planted in drifts along the parkways and arranged to provide a long and varied season of color. The tree lawn on Richtofen contains no sidewalk, but there is a canopy of Honeylocust planted in a single row at approximately 30' intervals.