![]() How about those groovy 1960s architectural styles? Here’s Mark’s photos and architecture commentary: Here are the 1960s parcels colored in red over a current Google Earth aerial: Neighborhoods launched in the 1950s that didn’t develop in full, like Virginia Village and Washington-Virginia Vale, continued to expand. Most of the city’s close-in neighborhoods approached full build-out, so the majority of new homes were built in new subdivisions like Bear Valley, Fort Logan, Hampden, Hampden South, Goldsmith, and Montbello. Virtually gone are the scattered new homes built within existing neighborhoods, as was the case up through the 1930s. Like the 1950s, most of the new homes built in the city in the 1960s were concentrated in new subdivisions on the city’s periphery. Parcels with homes that were built in a previous decade that remain in existence today are colored gray. Parcels with single-family homes built during the 1960s that remain in existence today are colored red. ![]() Here’s our Denver Neighborhoods Map showing the city’s single-family residential growth in the 1960s. While new neighborhoods were being added to the city, population losses in older parts of the city due to well-documented urban issues at that time (court-ordered busing, urban blight, etc.) restrained the city’s population growth. The 1960s represents the decade with the greatest amount of land annexed by the City and County of Denver, with the exception of the 1980s annexation of 53 square miles of land from Adams County for the development of Denver International Airport.įollowing the 1950s, Denver’s top decade for the number of single-family homes built in the city, the 1960s saw a significant decrease in the number of homes built in the city, despite all the annexations. From 1960 to 1969, approximately 9,500 single-family detached homes were built in Denver, about one-third of the number built in the 1950s. During the 1960s, Denver’s population increased by 20,791, from 493,887 in 1960 to 514,678 in 1970, a 4.2% increase. By the 1960s, Denver’s attitude about annexations was very aggressive-even described by some as “belligerent”-in an attempt to keep residents, and political power, within the city. During the decade, Denver annexed 17,533 acres of land, or about 27.4 square miles. Widespread suburbanization-and the annexation of many of those new suburban developments by Denver-continued in the 1960s. The 1960s was Denver’s eleventh full decade as a city. For previous installments in this series, please use the links below: Our series exploring the geographic and architectural attributes of Denver’s single-family homes continues… now it’s the 1960s.
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