International Style...
The Matchless
The Matchless restaurant with it’s distinctive barrel-shaped roof, part
of I.M. Pei’s original Mile High Center.
While portions of the Mile High Center survive, the site of The Matchless
is now part of the Wells Fargo Center (One United Bank Center by Philip Johnson)
April 14th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Centennial mod
Nice rooflines on this International-style home in Centennial.
I assume it is from the 1960s.
April 12th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Webb & Knapp ad
1959 Webb & Knapp ad from the state centennial insert in the Denver Post.
All I.M. Pei related Denver developments. From the top, Mile High Center,
The Hilton Hotel and Zeckendorf Plaza.
March 23rd, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Autumn shade
Autumn shadows play across the leaves on the lawn of this late-1950s-era modern home
in Wheat Ridge.
January 3rd, 2011 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Wheat Ridge Autumn
A nicely-sited hillside late-1950s modernist house in Wheat Ridge with lots of glass and a
rear view of the mountains.
January 2nd, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Autumn photos
Here is a modernist home from the early-60s in Wheat Ridge with a beautiful wall of glass
facing toward the mountains.
December 30th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Ed Hawkins in Southern Hills
Aside from the Arapahoe Acres development, Ed Hawkins designed numerous houses
all over the Denver area. These two Usonian-style Southern Hills homes date from 1958.
There is also a house in Arapahoe Hills based on the same design as this house above.
Courtesy of:
December 21st, 2010 / No Comments » / by Shannon Stanbro
Tomsick house
International-style Tomsick House in Southern Hills, designed 1955 by William Muchow.
December 20th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Missing the Autumn leaves
A sculpture contemplates in the shade from the trees surrounding this Usonian-style home
from 1957 in Southern Hills.
December 13th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Vintage gas station
El Colorado Tire & Wheels vintage gas station on Sheridan in Edgewater.
(click on photo to enlarge and see their cool Cold drinks machine).
December 7th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Inspiration Point International-style
This is another modernist home on Inspiration Terrace built by Denver businessman
Alphonse Martischang on the east side of Inspiration Point.
What is especially interesting about this house is that it seems to have embraced the
International Style during two different, but very early eras. The original brick house with
eaves from 1932 borders on Streamline Moderne, while the 1942 update adds the upper
deck with the glorious 360-degree view which is probably one of the best in the city!
December 2nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Inspiration Terrace
Beautiful 1964 modernist home nicely sited on a slope facing Sheridan on the east side of
Inspiration Point park (once owned by Denver businessman Alphonse Martischang).
(Tip of the hat to MidCenturyStyle.)
November 30th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Sorenson House
The Second-Phase International-style Sorensen House in Wheat Ridge, an outstanding
design by architect James Ream from 1966.
Courtesy of:
October 14th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Shannon Stanbro
Lakewood Usonian
1950s Usonian-style home in Lakewood.
(Not as good as the picture Shannon Stanbro uses for 5280mod!)
October 1st, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Golden Usonian
1950s Usonian-style home in Golden.
September 30th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
C.S.U. 1959
Brand new International-style buildings at Colorado State University Ft. Collins in 1959
(likely designed by James Hunter).
For Shannon!
September 29th, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
C.S.U. flagstone
Some examples of flagstones walls on the campus of Colorado State University. These
walls look like the telltale signs of Boulder International-style architect, James Hunter.
September 28th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Neirenberg House
Streamline house that you see all the time driving down Bonnie Brae Boulevard, built 1938.
Contrast with this photo taken in a different season.
September 21st, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Country Club South
1954 International-style house with butterfly roof to the south of Denver Country Club
September 20th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Ft. Collins
Shannon Stanbro and I went up to Ft. Collins to see their 26th Annual Historic Homes
Tour, which this year focused on the 50s-60s ranch-style Sheely neighborhood.
They respect homeowner privacy by discouraging photography during these type of tours,
but I had to sneak in a photo of the Ware House above, designed by Robert Bullock in
1961. This photo only hints at the charms of this extraordinary concrete, steel & glass home.
Here is one more photo from the Sheely neighborhood in Ft. Collins.
September 16th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Bureau of Reclamation
Reading a book by famed architectural photographer Julius Schulman, I was startled to see these photos of Building of Reclamation, the only ’skyscraper’ in the Denver Federal Center off of 6th Avenue.
This energy-efficient International-style building is an early HOK design (Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum), started 1964, completed 1967.
August 30th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Reed House
One last photo from Arapahoe Acres, this one from today.
The Reed House from 1954, designed by Ed Hawkins and Joseph Dion (I presume)
August 28th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Rickard House
The very first house in Arapahoe Acres, the Rickard House. This was a Revere
Copper Quality House!
Designed 1950 by Eugene Sternberg.
August 28th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Gable Roofs
Not all Arapahoe Acres homes have flat roofs. The 1954 Reed House by Ed Hawkins and Joseph Dion has two intersecting gable roofs.
August 27th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Shady eaves
The eaves of the Peterson House shade the front of this 1955 home in Arapahoe Acres, Englewood.
August 27th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
