Cheesman Park

A series of Acts by the U.S. Congress pre-dating Colorado statehood in 1876 created Cheesman Park.  Originally a cemetery, Congress permitted it to be converted into a park in 1893.  The relocation of the burial ground took several years and was not without controversy as it was largely a potter’s field for the poor immigrants.

The neighborhoods surrounding the 80-acre park were initially filled with large stately homes for the city’s wealthest families.  The Humboldt Island, Morgan’s Addition and Wyman’s residential historic districts can be found here.  The area peaked by 1915.  By 1930, the Cheesman Park became known for it’s growing concentration of apartments.  Today, the neighborhood’s population density of 12,000-people per square mile is triple Denver’s average density.

The family of Walter Cheesman, a Denver notable, donated the money for the pavilion on the eastside of the park.  The park was renamed in his honor.

There are many mid-rise and high-rise condo and loft subdivision complexes in Cheesman Park.  Among those are 1200 Vine Condominiums, Cheesman on the Park, Cheesman Wildcrest, Embassy House, Franklin Park, Highgate on Park, Huntington House, La Concorde, One Cheesman Place, Park Avenue Flats, Park Towers, Towers At Cheesman Park and Villa Cheesman.  

There is much to do in the Cheesman Park Urban Village neighborhood.  Abundant restaurants are close at-hand as well as the Denver Botanical Gardens.  You are close to Downtown Denver, yet it feels like country-living thanks to the expansive open space of Cheesman Park.  Enjoy a sunrise jog or an evening stroll through the flower gardens of Cheesman Park.

In addition to Cheesman Park, Downtown Denver includes the Urban Villages of Ballpark, Capitol Hill,Curtis Park|Five Points, the Downtown Central Business District, Golden Triangle, LoDo|Lower Downtown, Riverfront Park and Uptown|North Capitol Hill.

The eighty-acre Cheesman Park neighborhood located in Central Downtown Denver is one of Denver's oldest residential areas dating back to 1869. It is roughly bordered by Humboldt Street on the west, the Denver Botanic Gardens on the east, 13^th Avenue on the north, and 8^th Avenue on the south.  The majority of the land was annexed by the city in 1883 and by the end of the 1880s the neighborhood was platted, but little development had occurred. Cheesman Park and the land that is now the Denver Botanic Gardens was given to the city for use as a cemetery in 1872 by a congressional grant and Congress further awarded a grant to permit its use as a park in 1893. The earlier burial ground was then removed.

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