Arapahoe Acres
a.k.a. 5AH1434
Roughly bounded by W. Bates and Dartmouth Aves., and S. Marion and Franklin Sts., Englewood, COArapahoe Acres, built from 1949 to 1957, is a modernist residential community of 124 individually designed homes on a thirty-acre site in Englewood, Colorado. Arapahoe Acres displays a number of social and architectural influences which emerged in residential development in the years immediately following the end of World War II. Arapahoe Acres is eligible for the National Register under Criterion A for its social history, displaying new patterns of residential development which emerged in response to the family housing needs of hundreds of thousands of military personnel resuming civilian life after the war. Arapahoe Acres has significance for its architectural distinction, embodying the characteristics of the International Style and Usonian Style of architecture in their application to post-war residential design; for its significance in community planning and development, displaying important modern concepts in residential site development and neighborhood planning; for the distinction of its landscape architecture, integrating the landscape and built environment to create a neighborhood of remarkable visual continuity; for its innovative construction techniques and materials which emerged from wartime technological advances; and for its association with designer/builder Edward Hawkins, a local pioneer in modern residential development and construction, Eugene Sternberg, a regional master of mid-20th century modern architecture, and Joseph Dion, a prominent local modernist architect.
Local significance of the district:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.