A Brief History of South Denver & University Park by Steve Fisher

Author:Steve Fisher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS

The first structure on the Saint Thomas Seminary property at 1300 South Steele Street was built in 1908 and later expanded, from 1926 to 1931, by Denver architect Jacques Benedict in the Lombard style of architecture of northern Italy. The first seminary closed in the early 1990s and became home to the Roman Catholic Denver Archdiocese. In 1999, a second seminary opened and is now called the Seminary at the John Paul II Center for Evangelism.

Originally called St. Thomas Seminary when it was constructed in 1907, this Catholic seminary became the Saint John Vianney Theological Center in 1999. It is located at 1300 South Steele Street. Denver Public Library.

University Park Methodist Church, located at 2180 South University Boulevard across from the DU campus, was originally constructed in 1927 in the late Gothic Revival style by Denver architect Walter H. Simon.

The Washington Park Congregational Church, located at 400 South Williams, was chartered in 1925. A remodeling of the church by Muchow and Associates was completed in 1958, and today it is home to the Washington Park United Church of Christ.

In the 1920s, Denver Public Schools expanded greatly, with new construction or additions in South Denver at Asbury School, Denver South High School and University Park School. A junior high school at 150 South Pearl Street opened in 1921. The school was named for William Byers (1831–1903), founder and first editor of the Rocky Mountain News. It later served as the site for the Denver School of the Arts until 2003. In 2007, the building was upgraded at a cost of about $500,000 and is now a historic landmark. Rosedale School, near Harvard Gulch Park, was opened in 1924. After several years of declining enrollment, it was closed in May 2005. As of this writing, it stands empty, and its fate is uncertain. Asbury Elementary School, located between Asbury Street and Evans Avenue on South Marion Street, was named for the street where it resides, which in turn was named for Bishop Francis Asbury (1745–1816) of the Methodist Church. Asbury was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Church in the United States. The school was built in 1925, and later additions were made in 1927 and 1947. It is unusual to name a public school for a religious figure, but it has always been claimed that it was named after the street, not the person. Designed by Fisher and Fisher at a cost of just over $1 million, Denver South High School was opened in 1926 and stands at the southeast corner of Washington Park, at 1700 East Louisiana Avenue. It is a three-story building done in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. It features statues of gargoyles and griffins created by sculptor Robert Garrison.

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