The City Beautiful

Historical marker location:

1330 17th Street, Denver, Colorado

( Marker is on 17th Street south of Market Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Lower Downtown Historic District. Established 1988.

Colorado was originally part of the Kansas and Nebraska territories, but was separated and made into its own territory in 1861. It became a state in 1876, 100 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.