Dept. of Human Services

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The Department of Human Resources in the Ft. Logan Mental Health Center,
designed 1965 by Usonian architect, Victor Hornbein.

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You may know Hornbein best for his buildings at Denver Botanic Gardens, from the
same time period.

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There are even folded plate roofs incorporated into the design:

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It is known that he did the five buildings for Human Services, but there are other buildings
in the Mental Health Center that look like his work as well.

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