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Belcaro and Cory-Merrill

Belcaro and Cory-Merrill residents have easy access to downtown Denver and all that makes Denver a wonderful and sophisticated city. There are historic buildings, museums, art districts, parks and great shopping areas. The capitol of Denver is located downtown in the neighborhood of Capitol Hill. The US Mint, Denver Art Museum and Byers-Evans House – built in 1883 – are here as is the Denver Convention Center, Denver Performing Arts Center, Trianon Museum and Art Gallery along with the pedestrian-only 16th Street Mall.

Six Flags Elitch Gardens Amusement Park, the Children’s Museum of Denver and Colorado’s Ocean Journey, a 106,500 square foot aquarium, are located in the Central Platte Valley downtown neighborhood. Pepsi Center, home of the Denver Nuggets, is adjacent to this neighborhood and Coors Field is at the south end of downtown. Explore Larimer Street’s eclectic pubs, antique shops, coffeehouses, boutiques, cafes and small businesses or Larimer Square’s buildings dating to the Civil War. Larimer Square also features entertainment, restaurants and shops.

There are several hospitals in the Uptown downtown neighborhood as well as the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys. Trinity United Methodist Church is located in Uptown. It is the oldest church in Denver, founded in 1859. The stained glass windows were built in 1888 by Healy and Milet of Chicago, and the 4202-piece pipe organ was built the same year.

The neighborhood of Highland is home to Potter’s Row, a district of renovated Victorian houses and the West 28th Avenue Historic District (Stoneman’s Row) with its turn of the century flagstone houses and walkways. The neighborhood of Five Points is home to the only predominantly African-American owned commercial strip in the country, with more than 75 businesses. There are hundreds of acres of parkland in the 13 downtown neighborhoods. Confluence Park in the Central Platte Valley neighborhood is located on the South Platte River and offers kayaking. City Park is adjacent to the Uptown and Whittier neighborhoods and is the home of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and the Denver Zoo.

Denver, nicknamed “The Mile High City” and “Queen City of the Plains,” was founded in 1860 and became the capital of the Colorado Territory in 1861 and then of Colorado when it became a state in 1876. Denver was built on gold and silver mined from Clear Creek, Cripple Creek and the surrounding mountains. The dusty mining town is long gone, replaced by a cosmopolitan city with a Western spirit. Manufacturing, distribution, transportation and energy companies now bring wealth to the city. Points of interest outside of downtown include the Aviation and Space Center of the Rockies, Four Mile Historic Park, Mizel Museum of Judaica, and seventeen municipally owned mountain areas covering 14,000 acres. Van tours depart from downtown hotels and offer sight-seeing trips to the local mountains, Coors Brewery, Red Rocks Park, Pikes Peak, gold and silver mines, ski areas and historic downtown locales.