List of Denver Landmarks

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16th Street Mall (shown), a street rethe middle of Downtown Denver and home to many shopping, residential, and office buildings.

Avenue Theater Denver, a professional theater located in the Downtown Denver vicinity.

Black American West Museum, which reflects the history of African Americans in the West and Denver.

Brown Palace Hotel, proclaimed by Elvis as "The best hotel in the world", a historic hotel that has hosted many celebrities, dignitaries, and other important people.

Buckhorn Exchange, Denver's oldest restaurant, a historic old-west steakhouse

The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, where Pope John Paul II celebrated mass twice in August, 1993.

Civic Center, a neoclassical park, and the cultural, art and governmental center of Denver.

Colorado Convention Center, the newly renovated large convention center often hosts major events held in Denver.

Colorado State Capitol, the seat of the state government of Colorado.

Confluence Park, where the city started at the confluence of the South Platte and Cherry Creek.

D&F Tower, when it was built in 1910, it became the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

Denver's Downtown Aquarium, a full-sized public aquarium.

Denver Art Museum, the largest art museum between Kansas City and San Francisco.

Denver Botanic Gardens (shown), which made a Hollywood debut in Woody Allen's Sleeper

Denver Mint, the single largest producer of coins in the world.

Denver Firefighters Museum

Denver Museum of Nature and Science, one of America's premier museums exhibiting world culture.

The Denver Botanic Gardens

Denver Performing Arts Complex, the second largest performing arts center in the US after New York City's Lincoln Center.

Denver Public Library, which serves Denver's educational and entertainment needs from 24 locations and two bookmobiles.

The Union Station of Denver, both a significant historical building and future hub of RTD's rail network

Denver Zoo, one of the largest zoos of its kind, it features a gift shop and a wide array of exotic animals.

Dikeou Collection, a private collection of contemporary art that is open to the public.

Elitch Gardens, a rare downtown Amusement Park.

Elitch Theatre, an amazing historic theatre at the site of the original Elitch Gardens.

Ellie Caulkins Opera House

Four Mile House, an important stop on the Cherokee Trail and the oldest standing residential building in the metropolitan area.

Lloyd M. Joshel House, one of the finest examples of International Style architecture in Denver.

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, a museum featuring works of Vance Kirkland and others.

Molly Brown House, where "The unsinkable Molly Brown" once lived.

Red Rocks, a Denver-owned park and outdoor amphitheater located 15 miles west of city limits known for its natural red rock formations, acoustics and legendary concerts.

Richthofen Castle, a castle built by the uncle and godfather of the Red Baron.

Tattered Cover, a very popular independent bookstore with two locations in Denver (LoDo and Colfax Avenue), and one in the suburb of Highlands Ranch. It's hosted lectures by such great poets and minds as Denverites Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady.

Sakura Square or "Tiny Tokyo", the center of the historical and prominent Japanese community of Denver, first formed around 1944.

Union Station , a magnificent three-story building and the future hub of RTD's commuter rail network.

Wells Fargo Center, also known as the "cash register" building, one of the city's most identifiable buildings.

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is a municipal natural history and science museum in Denver, Colorado. It is a resource for informal science education in the Rocky Mountain region. A variety of exhibitions, programs, and activities help museum visitors learn about the natural history of Colorado, Earth, and the universe. The 500,000-square-foot (46,452 m2) building houses more than one million objects in its collections including natural history and anthropological materials, as well as archival and library resources.

The Museum is an independent, nonprofit institution with approximately 350 full-time and part-time staff, more than 1,600 volunteers, and a 25-member Board of Trustees. It is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and is a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.

Founded in 1900, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science is located in Denver’s City Park and has views of Denver and the Rocky Mountains. The Museum has had three different names since it first opened: The Colorado Museum of Natural History, The Denver Museum of Natural History, and now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

The Museum traces its origins back to the efforts of one man, a pioneer naturalist named Edwin Carter who devoted his life to the scientific study of Colorado birds, mammals and fauna. Since 1900, the museum collection has grown from Carter’s collection, housed in a log cabin, to a museum housing more than a million objects in its collections. Another man instrumental in developing the museum's collection through the mid 20th century was Dr Alfred Marshall Bailey, who served as Director from 1936 to 1969.

The Museum is known for its children’s discovery areas, the Space Odyssey exhibition, Gates Planetarium, the Prehistoric Journey exhibition, IMAX films, Egyptian mummies, wildlife exhibits, colorful gems and minerals, Expedition Health exhibition, temporary exhibitions, and education programs. Visitors can also experience the “best view in Denver” from the Anschutz Family Sky Terrace and Leprino Family Atrium on the west side of the building. Here, visitors see views of the Front Range, from Longs Peak in the north to Pikes Peak in the south.

The museum is partially funded by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), which was created by area voters in 1988.

Barack Obama speaks with CEO of Namaste Solar Electric, Inc., Blake Jones, while looking at solar panels at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Feb. 17, 2009.

Discovery Zone is a hands-on educational center geared toward children. dig up a stegosaurus, make fun crafts, play on the discovery stage, inspect insect specimens, and laugh yourself outloud with funhouse mirrors.

Egyptian Mummies uses two mummies and their tomb artifacts to teach how the ancient civilization of Egypt regarded its living and preserved its dead.

Expedition Health teaches visitors about the constantly changing and adapting human body.

Gems & Minerals is a re-created mine where visitors can examine many colorful crystals and minerals found both locally and globally.

North American Indian Cultures explores the diversity among Native American groups and the practicality and artistry of their everyday objects.

Gates Planetarium!

Gates Planetarium presents a view of the universe, using technology to tell science stories and help visitors experience the universe. The 125-seat planetarium features unidirectional, semi-reclining stadium seating, 16.4 surround-sound system featuring Ambisonic—a 3-D spatial sound system, and a perforated metal dome, 56 feet in diameter and tilted 25 degrees. The current Gates Planetarium replaces the older, dome-style planetarium.

Phipps IMAX Theater!

The Phipps IMAX Theater on the second floor of the museum was built as the Phipps Auditorium in 1940, and was used for lectures, concerts, and films until 1980. Renovated and reopened in 1983 as the Phipps IMAX Theater, it seats 440 people and now shows large-format IMAX films daily.

The future!

Plans for the future include a new 126,000 square foot, five level addition. The top three levels, known as the Morgridge Family Exploration Center, will house a temporary exhibition hall, Discovery Zone exhibition for young learners, and Exploration Studios for students and teachers. The two below ground levels are known as the Rocky Mountain Science Collections Center, and will house, study, and preserve more than 1.5 million artifacts and specimens in a climate-controlled space.

Museum secrets!

While many have visited the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, few have noticed the hidden surprises camouflaged within the museum's exhibits. Kent Pendleton, one of the museum's diorama painters, was unable to sign his work. In lieu of a signature, Pendleton painted a total of 8 elves in his work hidden throughout the museum.

In the Edge of the Wild exhibit there are two mechanical butterflies that flap their wings every few seconds making up the only moving objects in the diorama exhibits.

Finally, in the IMAX lobby entrance there are several painted pictures hidden on the walls relating to Star Wars.

Brief History of Halloween

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.

To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.

By 43 A.D., the Roman Empire had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.

On May 13, 609 A.D., Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon in Rome in honor of all Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day was established in the Western church. Pope Gregory III (731–741) later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs, and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1. By the 9th century the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted the older Celtic rites. In 1000 A.D., the church would make November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It is widely believed today that the church was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. All Souls Day was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and devils. The All Saints Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.

Halloween Comes to America

Celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. As the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups as well as the American Indians meshed, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge. The first celebrations included "play parties," public events held to celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell each other's fortunes, dance and sing. Colonial Halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of the nineteenth century, annual autumn festivities were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere in the country.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, America was flooded with new immigrants. These new immigrants, especially the millions of Irish fleeing Ireland's potato famine of 1846, helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally. Taking from Irish and English traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today's "trick-or-treat" tradition. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors.

In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to mold Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers than about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft. At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festive costumes. Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything "frightening" or "grotesque" out of Halloween celebrations. Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century.

By the 1920s and 1930s, Halloween had become a secular, but community-centered holiday, with parades and town-wide parties as the featured entertainment. Despite the best efforts of many schools and communities, vandalism began to plague Halloween celebrations in many communities during this time. By the 1950s, town leaders had successfully limited vandalism and Halloween had evolved into a holiday directed mainly at the young. Due to the high numbers of young children during the fifties baby boom, parties moved from town civic centers into the classroom or home, where they could be more easily accommodated. Between 1920 and 1950, the centuries-old practice of trick-or-treating was also revived. Trick-or-treating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire community to share the Halloween celebration. In theory, families could also prevent tricks being played on them by providing the neighborhood children with small treats. A new American tradition was born, and it has continued to grow. Today, Americans spend an estimated $6 billion annually on Halloween, making it the country's second largest commercial holiday.

Today's Halloween Traditions

The American Halloween tradition of "trick-or-treating" probably dates back to the early All Souls' Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called "soul cakes" in return for their promise to pray for the family's dead relatives. The distribution of soul cakes was encouraged by the church as a way to replace the ancient practice of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits. The practice, which was referred to as "going a-souling" was eventually taken up by children who would visit the houses in their neighborhood and be given ale, food, and money. 

The tradition of dressing in costume for Halloween has both European and Celtic roots. Hundreds of years ago, winter was an uncertain and frightening time. Food supplies often ran low and, for the many people afraid of the dark, the short days of winter were full of constant worry. On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits. On Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them from attempting to enter.

Halloween Superstitions

Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery, magic and superstition. It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps and along the side of the road and lit candles to help loved ones find their way back to the spirit world. Today's Halloween ghosts are often depicted as more fearsome and malevolent, and our customs and superstitions are scarier too. We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us bad luck. This idea has its roots in the Middle Ages, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into cats. We try not to walk under ladders for the same reason. This superstition may have come from the ancient Egyptians, who believed that triangles were sacred; it also may have something to do with the fact that walking under a leaning ladder tends to be fairly unsafe. And around Halloween, especially, we try to avoid breaking mirrors, stepping on cracks in the road or spilling salt.

But what about the Halloween traditions and beliefs that today's trick-or-treaters have forgotten all about? Many of these obsolete rituals focused on the future instead of the past and the living instead of the dead. In particular, many had to do with helping young women identify their future husbands and reassuring them that they would someday—with luck, by next Halloween—be married. In 18th-century Ireland, a matchmaking cook might bury a ring in her mashed potatoes on Halloween night, hoping to bring true love to the diner who found it. In Scotland, fortune-tellers recommended that an eligible young woman name a hazelnut for each of her suitors and then toss the nuts into the fireplace. The nut that burned to ashes rather than popping or exploding, the story went, represented the girl's future husband. (In some versions of this legend, confusingly, the opposite was true: The nut that burned away symbolized a love that would not last.) Another tale had it that if a young woman ate a sugary concoction made out of walnuts, hazelnuts and nutmeg before bed on Halloween night she would dream about her future husband. Young women tossed apple-peels over their shoulders, hoping that the peels would fall on the floor in the shape of their future husbands' initials; tried to learn about their futures by peering at egg yolks floating in a bowl of water; and stood in front of mirrors in darkened rooms, holding candles and looking over their shoulders for their husbands' faces. Other rituals were more competitive. At some Halloween parties, the first guest to find a burr on a chestnut-hunt would be the first to marry; at others, the first successful apple-bobber would be the first down the aisle.

Of course, whether we're asking for romantic advice or trying to avoid seven years of bad luck, each one of these Halloween superstitions relies on the good will of the very same "spirits" whose presence the early Celts felt so keenly.

Halloween Celebrations in Denver

Get ready for a spectacularly spooky October in Denver. Explore an eight-acre wart maze. Hear tales of Victorian horror. Take the youngster trick or processing at the Denver Zoo or the Children's Museum of Denver. Roam the streets of Downtown Denver with hundreds of zombies!

It's finally here. It's that spooky time of year when the whole family gets to celebrate in system and have some amusement pretending to be someone else. Halloween is not just for kids, and there are lots of great parties all over Denver that prove it. Book a form for the night, type some hotel reservations or hire a taxi and get ready to celebrate Halloween like you've never celebrated before. Break out the outfit and you could even come accommodation with a huge cash prize. Here are a few of the best pertinence to celebrate Halloween in Denver this year.

Not every formality has to be terrifying. Check out the Denver Botanic Gardens' formality for Dia De Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. This festival is more of a welcoming for mettle and you'll enjoy dancers, live entertainment, singing and more. You'll get to type the traditional sugar mind and papel picado, enjoy envelope painting, a picture kiosk and just approx every fun Dia De Los Muertos bustle you can pondering of. Bring the whole family for this amusement formality and you'll even learn a little air roughly another refinement and some truly fascinating traditions.

A family tradition of the not-too-scary-sort, this coordination features music from the Harry Potter movies as well a few surprises! Be sure to clothing up for the Halloween celebration and witness the zany costumes the Colorado Symphony musicians create. Some of our puppy concertgoers testament be invited on stage to fairs off their outfit as well!

The grand dame of Denver's hotels, the Brown Palace is rumored to drove a amounts of talent in its historic rooms and hallways. The hotel's historian handbooks wide-eyed company on tours through some of The Brown's more hair-raising hauntings, strikes tales of mysterious sightings and confusion from its 117 year past. These themed tours are offered to the public on select age in October. Reservations are required. On Oct. 27, the Brown's Ellyngton's Restaurant undergoes a spooktacular junctions for the Monster Brunch, with costumed anticipation ray and Halloween themed food. Reservations are required.

Colorado Governor's Mansion

The Colorado Governor's Mansion, also known as the Cheesman-Boettcher Mansion, is a historic U.S. mansion in Denver, Colorado. It is located at 400 East 8th Avenue. On December 3, 1969, it was added to The U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

History

This building is located in Denver on the southeast corner of 8th Avenue and Logan Street. The exact address is 400 E. 8th Avenue. The Governor's Mansion is also known as the Cheesman-Evans-Boettcher Mansion for its former owners.

The building was built in 1908 after a design by Denver architects Willis A. Marean and Albert J. Norton. The house was originally built as a residence for the widow and the daughter of Denver real estate tycoon Walter Scott Cheesman.

The mansion was designed to accommodate two families. On November 8, 1908, Cheesman's daughter, Gladys, married John Evans II, the grandson of John Evans, the second territorial governor of Colorado. The widowed mother and young couple lived together until the birth of the Evans' first child, after which they relocated. On January 2, 1923, Alice Foster Sanger Cheesman died.

Claude K. Boettcher purchased the mansion on February 23, 1923. Boettcher was the head of a financial empire that eventually included sugar, livestock, cement, potash, steel, securities, utilities, and transportation. Boettcher was famous for his lavish parties which included President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. Boettcher died on June 9, 1957, and his wife in 1958.

The house was inherited by the Boettcher Foundation. The foundation offered the house to the State of Colorado as an Executive Residence. The building needed a great deal of work, and its fate remained uncertain for nine months in 1959 as three agencies of the State rejected the offer. On the last day of 1959, Governor Stephen McNichols accepted the building as a gift to the state.

From then until January, 2011, it has been the residence of Governors Stephen L.R. McNichols, John Love, John D.Vanderhoof, Richard D. Lamm, Roy R. Romer, William Owens, and William Ritter. The building was restored in the 1980s under the direction of Edward D. White, Jr. Upon taking office in January, 2011, Governor John Hickenlooper and his family decided to maintain their private residence in Denver instead of moving to the Governor's Mansion.

Architecture

The Cheesman-Evans-Boettcher Mansion is a formal, late Georgian Revival house. The building is surrounded by a wrought iron fence with cannonball finials on the brick posts. The walls of the mansion are red brick. There is a white wooden frosting under a hipped roof with prominent gabled dormers. The cornice is pedimented and dentiled. The west side portico has massive, two-story fluted Ionic columns. There is a dramatic entry way with grouped columns that support a porch which becomes a balustraded second-story balcony. The semicircular sunroom was added by suggestion of Mrs. Cheesman in 1915, and it overlooks a small park now known as "Governor's Park".

Peyton Manning

Peyton Williams Manning (born March 24, 1976) is an American football quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Indianapolis Colts for 14 seasons from 1998 to 2011. He is a son of former NFL quarterback Archie Manning and an elder brother of New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning.

Manning played college football for the University of Tennessee, leading the Volunteers to the 1997 SEC Championship in his senior season. However, No. 3 Tennessee lost to the No. 2 Nebraska Cornhuskers 42-17 in the Orange Bowl giving Nebraska and Tom Osborne their 3rd national championship in 4 years. He was chosen by the Indianapolis Colts with the first overall pick in the 1998 NFL Draft. From 1998 to 2010, he led the Colts to eight (seven AFC South and one AFC East) division championships, two AFC championships, and one Super Bowl championship (Super Bowl XLI). He has won a record four league most valuable player awards, was the most valuable player of Super Bowl XLI, has been named to twelve Pro Bowls, has twelve 4,000-yard passing seasons, and is the Indianapolis Colts' all-time leader in passing yards (54,828) and touchdown passes (399). In 2009, he was named the best player in the NFL, and Fox Sports, along with Sports Illustrated, named him the NFL player of the decade for the 2000s.

In May 2011, he underwent neck surgery to alleviate neck pain and arm weakness he dealt with during the previous few seasons before signing a five-year, $90 million contract extension with the Colts in July 2011. Manning had hoped to play in the 2011 season, but in September 2011 he underwent a second, and much more serious surgery: a level one cervical fusion procedure. Manning had never missed an NFL game in his career, but was forced to miss the entire 2011 season. He was released by the Colts on March 7, 2012, and after an almost two-week period where he visited with and worked out for several NFL teams, he signed with the Denver Broncos on March 20, 2012.

High school career

Manning attended Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisiana. He led his team to a 34–5 record during three seasons as starter. He was named Gatorade Circle of Champions National Player-of-the-Year and Columbus (Ohio) Touchdown Club National Offensive Player-of-the-Year in 1993.

College career

Manning stunned many when he chose to attend the University of Tennessee and play on the Tennessee Volunteers football team, instead of attending Ole Miss, his father's alma mater.He became Tennessee's all-time leading passer with 11,201 yards and 89 touchdowns and won 39 of 45 games as a starter, breaking the Southeastern Conference (SEC) record for career wins.

Manning's number was retired by the University of Tennessee in 2005

As a freshman, Manning was the third-string quarterback, but injuries to Todd Helton and Jerry Colquitt forced him to take over the Mississippi State game, a 24–21 loss. In his first start, the following week against Washington State, the Vols won, 10–9, and the Vols won all but one of their remaining games, finishing the season 8–4 with a 45–23 victory over Virginia Tech in the Gator Bowl.

Manning and the Vols started off the 1995 season with victories over East Carolina and Georgia, before heading off to Gainesville to play the Gators. Against Florida, he threw for 326 yards and 2 touchdowns, leading the Vols to a 30–21 halftime lead. However, the Gators outscored the Vols 41–7 in the second half, winning 62–37.This was the Vols' only loss of the season, as they won their remaining 8 regular season games, including a 41–14 win over Alabama and then defeated Ohio State in the Citrus Bowl.The Vols ended the season ranked third and Manning came in sixth in Heisman Trophy voting.

The Vols opened the 1996 season ranked second behind Nebraska and one of the favorites to win the national championship. However, after winning their first 2 games against UNLV and UCLA, the Vols again lost to Florida 35–29, with Manning throwing 4 interceptions. After winning their next four games, the Vols were upset by Memphis, despite Manning passing for 296 yards. The Vols won the remainder of their games, including a 48–28 win in the Citrus Bowl over Northwestern, a game in which Manning passed for 408 yards and 4 touchdowns; he was named the game's MVP.

Manning completed his degree in three years, and was projected to be the top overall pick in the NFL Draft, but returned to Tennessee for his senior year. In his senior season, the Vols opened the season with victories against Texas Tech and UCLA, but for the third time in his career, Manning fell to Florida 33–20.The Vols won the rest of their regular season games, finishing 10–1, and advanced to the SEC Championship game against Auburn. Down 20–7, Manning led the Vols to a 30–29 victory. Throwing for 4 touchdowns, he was named the game's MVP, but injured himself in the process. The 3rd-ranked Vols were matched-up with second-ranked Nebraska in the Orange Bowl; if Tennessee won and top-ranked Michigan lost to Washington State in the Rose Bowl, the Vols would win the national championship. However, the Vols' defense could not stop Nebraska's rushing attack, giving up over 400 rushing yards in a 42–17 loss. As a senior, Manning won numerous awards; he was a consensus first-team All-American, the Maxwell Award winner, the Davey O'Brien Award winner, the Johnny Unitas Award winner, and the Best College Player ESPY award winner, among others; however, he did not win the Heisman, finishing runner-up to Charles Woodson. In 2005, Tennessee retired Manning's number (No. 16).One of the streets leading to Neyland Stadium has been renamed Peyton Manning Pass. Manning was elected to Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1997.

Professional career

Indianapolis Colts

1998 season: Rookie season

"To me, he's the greatest of all time. He's a friend of mine, and someone that I always watch and admire, because he always wants to improve, he always wants to get better, and he doesn't settle for anything less than the best. So, when you watch the best and you're able to learn from the best, hopefully that helps me get better."

—Tom Brady, on Peyton Manning .

Despite concerns about his arm strength and mobility, Manning was selected first overall in the 1998 draft by the Indianapolis Colts. In his rookie season, he passed for 3,739 yards with 26 touchdowns, set five different NFL rookie records, including most touchdown passes in a season, and was named to the NFL All-Rookie First Team. Manning's first win came against fellow rookie quarterback Ryan Leaf, 17–12 over the Chargers. Weeks later, Manning faced off against Steve Young; he threw three touchdowns, tying a Colts rookie record, but the 49ers kicked a late field goal to win 34–31. In November against the Jets, Manning threw for three touchdowns in a 24–23 win; he was named AFC Offensive Player of the Week for this performance. It was the first game-winning drive of Manning's career, as he hit Marcus Pollard with the game-winning TD pass. Manning was certainly a bright spot in 1998 for the Colts, but he also threw a league high 28 interceptions as the team struggled to a 3–13 record with a defense that gave up more than 27 points per game. The Colts lost many close games, including five games in which they had led by double-digits at some point.

Til Now

2013 season

On the opening game of the 2013 NFL season, Manning became one of only six players in NFL history to throw seven touchdowns in a game. He did so against the defending Super Bowl XLVII champions, the Baltimore Ravens. He also added to this feat by not throwing an interception, tying Y. A. Tittle as one of the only two players to have a 7:0 touchdown to interception ratio in a single game. Against the Oakland Raiders in week three, Manning broke the record for most touchdown passes in the first three games of a season after throwing 12, passing Tom Brady's record in 2011.In Week 5, Manning threw this first interception of the season, in a win against the Dallas Cowboys. He was intercepted by Morris Claiborne.

Personal life

Manning was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Olivia (née Williams) and NFL quarterback Elisha Archibald "Archie" Manning III. He married his wife, Ashley, in Memphis on St. Patrick's Day in 2001. Ashley was introduced to him by her parents' next-door neighbor the summer before Manning's freshman year in college. Peyton and wife Ashley have twins, a boy and a girl, Marshall Williams and Mosley Thompson.

Manning reportedly has an excellent memory for plays. He memorized the Colts' playbook within a week after being drafted,and In 2012 was able to precisely recall the details and timing of a specific play he had used at Tennessee 16 years earlier.During the summer, Archie, Peyton, Eli, and Cooper run the Manning Passing Academy, a five-day camp which aims to improve the offensive skills of quarterbacks, wide receivers, tight ends, and running backs.In addition to the Mannings, the camp has included many prominent players from football as coaches, such as Colts wide receivers Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne.

Alamo Placita, Denver

The Alamo Placita hoodlum of Denver, Colorado, United States, is named after Alamo Placita Park which is located on the north side of Speer Boulevard between Ogden and Emerson Streets. The neighborhood is bounded by Downing Street (east), Speer Boulevard (south), Pennsylvania Street (west), 6th Avenue (north) west of Clarkson Street and 7th Avenue (north) east of Clarkson Street. Alamo Placita is segment of a larger delegate neighborhood called Speer.

The history of the Alamo Placita Historic District tells the tale of 1860s prairie earth along Cherry Creek just three miles (5 km) southeast of the new town of Lovely Denver. Farsighted investor Moses Hallett, an follower from Illinois, bought the soil in 1864. Hallett's quarter clause of land became Arlington Park Addition, and later, Alamo Placita neighborhood. By 1887, Denver's southern city hindrance was the northern border of Hallett's occurrences (now East 6th Avenue). A paths on the eastern compass of Hallett's land, called Hallett Road, is now Downing Street. In 1889, Hallett sold his den to the Arlington Park Land and Improvement Company and became one of several investors in the company.

Robert W. Speer came to the West in 1878 hunting a cure for his tuberculosis. He recovered and exhibited boundless determination that defied any earlier malaise. Speer is remembered for becoming Denver's first mayor under residences alias in 1904, his three terms as mayor, his exuberance for Denver's City Beautiful Movement, his foodstuffs for the Denver park system, his boss-style politics, and his personal revenue from realities state investments. Much less well known were Speer's important connections with the Alamo Placita neighborhood.

Those connections included, first, the reality that Alamo Placita hood was Speer's first major actuality kingdom investment. He formed a syndicate to develop the land. When Arlington Park Addition was created, it became the first clients for Speer's newly formed actuality shore company. Second, Speer's creation of an supplements and then an amusement park provided him with sophistication as the central digits in pulling big plans together with powerful Denver men. Third, the neighborhood was his home. Robert and Kate Speer built their arrangement at 505 Clarkson Street (now demolished) in 1890, and they lived there until 1906.

The grand inception for Arlington Park was held on the Fourth of July 1892. An extravagant theatrical production, "The Last Days of Pompeii," was the main attraction, involving 300 actors and a 54-foothigh set of Mt. Vesuvius. When Mt. Vesuvius erupted, a large fireworks parade accompanied the eruption. In true Speer style, the raising was heavily promoted and an estimated 12,000 tribe attended.

The future of Arlington Park looked bright, and surely more events were anticipated. Anticipation disappeared when the 1893 Silver Crash brought the thrift to a standstill. In 1898, Arlington Park reopened under the name Chutes Park. The new feature was "the chutes," a graded waterfall that took riders in boats down into the lake at the bottom.

Two new attractions in May 1899 lured satisfaction seekers. Miss Sadie Boynton, recently of Paris, France, would thrill all by "shooting the chutes" on a bicycle. Also, "Professor Barnes' muchheralded pack of driving and submerging elks" would trip up a rampage and plunge, one at a time, off a 60-foot (18 m)-high piers into a tank of water. Handbills proclaimed the park "The Coney Island of the West."

Alamo Placita Park (Little Place of the Cottonwoods) has often been called Denver's mass formations and herdsman beautiful park. The name commemorates the dozens cottonwoods that grew naturally in this area. A few of the old trees can still be found in Alamo Placita Park and in the neighborhood.

In 1911, the control for the park was acquired by ostracism decree. The city paid $30,450 to acquire the control from Speer's Arlington Park Realty Company. The ore totaled 4.64 acres (18,800 m2). In 1912 a assignment issue was defeated that would have added the northern piece of the 300 block bounded by Emerson Street and Ogden Street to the park land.

The park land remained undeveloped until 1927, when scenery occupation finally commenced. Colorado's premier scenery architect, Saco Reink DeBoer, designed the park. Speer hired DeBoer as Denver's assistant landscapes architect in 1910, a policy he held until 1931. DeBoer designed parks and parkways in Denver and actively participated in city planning. The park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and he Colorado State Register of Historic Properties.With the structure boom of the post-World War II age carrying newer populations to the city boundary or new suburban communities, quantity of the Alamo Placita neighborhood continued to lottery those who needed more affordable housing. Some developers demolished a few early abode to build more lucrative, multifamily apartments. Most of these new apartments were built on a relatively small scale.

According to Assessor records, by 1930 approximately 90 percent of the betrayal Alamo Placita Historic District buildings were built; by 1940, 94 percent were built. These include single-family dwellings, multifamily dwellings, and the few commercial arrangement in the district.

Neighborhood development continued with change occurring at a very slow pace, reacting to the ups and downs of the economy. During the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the value of the hoodlum as a family-oriented surroundings close to the bosom of the city was quietly rediscovered by offspring specialist and others. Lawyers, doctors, teachers, and businesspeople were association into Alamo Placita in greater numbers, mating traffic craftsmen, clerks, salesmen, and others. An shape of one such duo is Richard and Dottie Lamm, who lived at 531 Emerson Street in the 1960s, before Lamm became a three-term governor of Colorado. The rediscovery of the neighborhood included an reverence and reverence for its architecture. Growing numbers of residents became aware of the neighborhood's architectural integrity. Their interest led to a sanity to protect their habitats and learn more about hoodlum history. This in inning formed the foundation for the disposition of Alamo Placita Neighbors Association.

Molly Brown House Denver

The Molly Brown House Museum Denver (also known as House of Lions) is a house located at 1340 Pennsylvania Street in Denver, Colorado, United States that was the tuning of American philanthropist, socialite, and activist Margaret Brown. Brown was known as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" because she survived the dent of the RMS Titanic. The museum now located in her former domicile presents exhibits interpreting her existence and that of Victorian Denver as well as architectural preservation. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

The house was built in the 1880s by architect William A. Lang, incorporating loads popular styles of the period, including Queen Anne Style architecture, for the original owners Isaac and Mary Large. They suffered financially from the crash resulting from the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in 1893 and were forced to sell the house. It was purchased by James Joseph Brown (J.J.), Margaret's husband, in 1894 for US$30,000 and the title was transferred to Margaret in 1898, possibly due to J.J.'s deteriorating health.

Margaret and the family traveled a ditch of the time, and so the house was rented out. In 1902, it was the governor's palace for the Governor of Colorado and his family (Maggie invited the governor and his clans to use her accommodation while the governor's turret was undergoing remodeling). During the Great Depression, Margaret was forced to inning it into a boarding house under the observations of her housekeeper. It was also during the Depression that the house was sold after Margaret's annihilation in 1932, for $6,000. It was in disrepair, and the new owners drastically remodeled it to house 12 roomers. 

The house continued to deteriorate and by 1970 was battery for demolition, but a aviation of concerned citizens formed Historic Denver, Inc., growing the medium for the house to be restored to its former glory. In restoration, the group used architectural research, paintchip analysis, and original picture taken in 1910 as guides to reconstructing it. Today the residences is still owned by Historic Denver, Inc.[2] and public tours are run daily for a fee.

Boston Building Denver

The Boston Building, built in 1890, was designed by the undertaking Andrews, Jacques and Rantoul - the same architects who designed the nearby Equitable Building. At the time of construction, it was dubbed the first "strictly modern legislature building" in Denver. Standing 9-stories tall (35 meters high), the structure is located at 828 17th Street in Denver's historic district, on the corner of E. 17th St. and Champa. On September 18, 1978 the Boston Building received National Historic Landmark phases under the Historic Resources of Downtown Denver Multiple Property Submission (Building Number: 5DV.108). The sequences has also been deemed a Denver historic landmark. In 1998 the structure was renovated and joined with the Kistler Building to create one- and two-bedroom mount lofts.

Today, the Boston Building is located in the breast of Lovely Denver Downtown next to LoDo and the 16th Street Mall. It is surrounded by other National Historic Landmark buildings, such as the US National/Guaranty Bank Building (which has been converted to the Bank Lofts), the American National Bank Building, and the Denver National Bank Building. It houses 158 residential pad lofts, which have retained some of the arrangement of the original succession (including high ceilings, exposed brick, pressed-tin ceilings, and original stained glass windows on the 2nd floor).

Its exterior features a mixing of Renaissance Revival and Richardsonian Romanesque manner elements and is clad in Manitou red sandstone. The original arrangement had dome in the corners of the building, which have been converted into vestibules for the corner foundation units. Some troop have even retained the heavy vault doors on the outer vestibule. The control was purchased by Apartment Investment and Management Company (Aimco - slices ticker AIV) in 2000 from National Properties.

Green Initiatives

Prior to 2008 the Boston Lofts purchased steam from Denver's central steam motion to provide domestic water heating and breach heating. In 2008, the steam heating intrigue was replaced with high efficiency, compressing boilers fueled by clean burning natural gas. The new design includes a hammock enabled structure sovereignty intrigue to maximize the operating efficiencies of the new central plant. The retrofit homosexuality reduced the baron of intestines required to fulfill the heating demands compared to the city steam intrigue and also eliminated approximately 300,000 gallons of fragment water per year.

Tenants

In supplements to the apartment lofts, the structure also houses 9,600 square dogs (890 m2) of retail spaces - which is currently occupied by Cobbler's Corner, Gourmet Deli, Tousled Hair, D'Vine Wine, and FASTSIGNS.

Civic Center, Denver

Civic Center is a neighborhood and park in Denver, Colorado. The field is known as the mettle of the civic life in the city, with numerous institutions of arts, government, and growing as well as numerous festivals, parades, and protests throughout the year. The park is arrangement to many fountains, statues, and formal gardens, and includes a Greek amphitheater, a wrestle memorial, and the Voorhies Memorial Seal Pond. It is well known for its symmetrical Neoclassical design.

Civic Center is located in central Denver just south of the Central Business District. The Civic Center Park Denver is located at the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Broadway, perhaps the best-known and crowd important streets in Denver. The park edge are defined as Bannock Street on the west, Lincoln Street on the east, Colfax Avenue on the north, and 14th Avenue on the south. The institutions surrounding the civic center are generally opinion of as fraction of the Civic Center area, and future plans for the civic mettle would extend the area further west all the size to Speer Boulevard.

Civic Center is also a neighborhood defined by the Denver city government, but is probably identified in the say of Denverites as the "Golden Triangle." The limit of this hoodlum are Speer Boulevard on the west and south, Broadway on the east, and Colfax Avenue on the north. Civic Center was an outline that originated with former Denver mayor Robert W. Speer. In 1904, Speer proposed a trick of civic improvements based on the City Beautiful Ideas shown to him at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Speer hired Charles Mulford Robinson among others to develop plans for the area. Robinson proposed extending 16th Street to the Colorado State Capitol and to group other municipal composition around a central park area. However, the plan was defeated in a 1907 election. Undaunted, Speer gathered business conductor who brought in new say for the Civic Center including the establishment of an east-west axial between the Colorado State Capitol, and swinging the north and south boundaries of the park into the city grid system.

These plans were stalled when in 1912, Speer was replaced as mayor. The new mayor brought in Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. who was structure plans for Denver's investment parks. His goal include an informal grove of trees on the eastern interference of the park, and a lighted accord area. When Speer was reelected in 1916, he re-pursued his opinion approx the Civic Center, hiring Chicago planner and architect Edward H. Bennett, a protégé of Daniel Burnham. Bennett combined the opinion of all of the previous plans, adding the Greek amphitheater, the Colonnade, the seal pond, and the realignment of Colfax Avenue and 14th Ave., around the park. The park officially opened in 1919.

Park Hill, Denver

Park Hill is a neighborhood in Lovely Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Located in the northeastern quadrant of the city, it is bordered by Colorado Boulevard on the west, East Colfax Avenue on the south, Quebec Street on the east, and East 52nd Avenue on the north. The entire Park Hill hoods is located in the zone known as East Denver. It is further divided by the City and County of Denver into three administrative neighborhoods, South Park Hill, North Park Hill, and Northeast Park Hill.

In 1887, Baron Alois von Winckler platted the original Park Hill offshoot on 32 acres (130,000 m2) of ore he owned east of City Park. This capita was bordered by gift day Montview Boulevard on the south, Colorado Boulevard on the west, East 26th Avenue on the north, and Dahlia Street on the east, placing it in what is now the western share of South Park Hill.

In 1898, in criticisms to the Spanish-American War, Baron von Winckler allowed manure directly north of the original section to be used as a camp for the Colorado National Guard. It housed 1,400 troops in tents. Shortly after this, the Baron committed suicide, reportedly after eyesight the troops leaves for the Philippines.

The first homes in Park Hill were offered for acquisition in 1900. As the neighborhood grew, settlers from lots nations, including England, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy, moved in, as did African Americans. After World War II, residential skull increased in the northern fraction of the neighborhood.

In the early 1950s, the Dahlia Square Shopping Center was built in Northeast Park Hill atop a landfill. Located between Dahlia Street and Elm Street and between East 33rd Avenue and East 35th Avenue, it was the commercial recollection of the neighborhood during its time, and at its summit featured a number of businesses including a grocery store. As time passed, it fell into disrepair and was considered a horror by residents.

Starting in the 1990s, under probation by then-mayor Wellington Webb, many redevelopment plans were considered, but none was successful until April 2005, after Webb left office. In that month, the sphere was purchased by Parkhill Community Inc., a subsidiary of Brownfield Partners, LLC, which had been chosen by the Denver Urban Renewal Authority (DURA) to clean up the belt and prepare it for redevelopment. In late 2005, DURA announced it would employment exclusively with Alliance Development Partners, Inc., to redevelop the grounds when remediation was complete. Alliance was formed by Webb and partners.

Demolition of the structure on the site, including illustration of asbestos, was completed by December 2005, and remediation of the dump began in February 2006. Data from the U.S. Census indicate that in the year 2000, there were a total of 26,422 residents in 10,221 family in the three administrative Park Hill neighborhoods comprising Lovely Denver. Income increased from north to south, and the mathematics of minority residents increased from south to north. The racial arrangement of Park Hill, as a whole, is 39.76% white (27.06% white alone-non Hispanic), 51.48% African American, 2.87% Asian, 1.21% Native American. Hispanic or Latino of any kidney is 17.38% of the population.

Downtown Aquarium in Denver

Downtown Aquarium (formerly Colorado's Ocean Journey) is a public aquarium and restaurant located in Denver, Colorado at the intersection of I-25 and 23rd Ave. The 107,000 square feet (9,900 m2) main building sits on a 17-acre (6.9 ha) site adjacent to the South Platte River. Its freshwater and marine aquaria total approximately 1,000,000 US gallons (3,785,000 l), and exhibit a variety of fish and other animals.

The Downtown Aquarium in Denver is owned and operated by Landry's Restaurants, Inc., and is the largest aquarium between Chicago and California. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).

Colorado's Ocean Journey was founded by Bill Fleming and Judy Petersen Fleming as a nonprofit entity. It was partially funded by a $57 million bond loan as well as loans by the department of Housing and Urban Development, and its total cost was $93 million. The facility opened June 21, 1999 and soon earned accreditation by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).

Although initial attendance was high, the number of visitors fell drastically within a few months, and the aquarium failed to meet its attendance projections of over a million visitors per year, in part because of a downturn in the U.S. economy. The aquarium was not able to make payments on its high construction debt, and Colorado Ocean Journey Liquidation Inc. filed bankruptcy April 2002 with a $62.5 million debt. After a last-minute bidding war with Ripley's Entertainment, Landry's Restaurants, Inc. purchased the facility in March 2003 for $13.6 million.

After the purchase, the facility remained open to the public until the summer of 2005, when it closed briefly for renovations. These included the addition of a full-service restaurant, bar, and ballroom. A 150,000-US-gallon (568,000 l) marine aquarium was added to the restaurant area. Upon its reopening July 14, 2005, the facility was renamed Downtown Aquarium.

A major theme for this landlocked aquarium is the relationship between inland freshwater ecosystems and the ocean. The original design of the aquarium was zoogeographic. It focused on the path to the ocean taken by two rivers, the Colorado River in North America and the Kampar River in Indonesia. The Colorado River Journey included exhibits of endangered fish, including Desert Pupfish; gamefish such as bass; and northern river otters, among other species. It ended with a large exhibit depicting the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), into which the actual Colorado River empties. The Indonesia River Journey included exhibits of animals such as Asian arowanas, rainbowfish, and endangered Sumatran Tigers, among other species. It ended with a large exhibit depicting the southern Pacific Ocean. In addition to these two journeys, the aquarium housed a large sea otter exhibit.

After the 2005 renovations, the two journey paths remain, but are no longer arranged in a strictly zoogeographic pattern. For example, tanks on the second pathway (formerly the Kampar River Journey) depict African and South American freshwater ecosystems; other tanks are mixed community aquaria. The sea otter exhibit was removed to make room for the restaurant tank.

The facility features several interactive exhibits, including a horseshoe crab touch tank and a stingray touch-and-feed tank.

The aquarium continues to focus on conservation. To that end, it houses numerous endangered or threatened species: 12 species of fish, six of reptiles, two of mammals, and two of birds. It participates in the AZA's Species Survival Plan for Sumatran Tigers.

A volunteer program administered by the Deep Blue Sea Foundation, a nonprofit group, is in place. The Deep Blue Sea Foundation was formed after Landry's purchased the aquarium to ensure the educational goals of the original founders would continue to be met. The aquarium also periodically hosts for-cost educational seminars.

Sloan's Lake Denver

Sloan's Lake is a body of water, park, and neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, US. The neighborhood is located on the northwest side of Denver. The lake is the central feature of Sloan's Lake Park, which is managed by the Parks and Recreation division of the City and County of Denver.

Sloan's Lake is located on the western edge of Denver's city limits, adjacent to the suburbs of Lakewood, Edgewater and Wheat Ridge. The approximate boundaries are Sheridan Boulevard to the west, 17th Avenue to the south, Federal Boulevard to the east, and 26th Avenue to the north. There are no tributary rivers to the lake. St. Anthony Central Hospital used to be southeast of this area, between 17th Avenue and Colfax Avenue in a neighborhood known as West Colfax, before it was moved farther west to Lakewood. Currently, the building is being torn down.

The true history of the creation of Sloan's Lake may never be officially known, but during the settlement of the Denver area in the mid to late 19th century, the lake did not exist. A road connecting Denver and the western suburb of Golden crossed through where Sloan's Lake is now. A homesteader named Thomas F. Sloan received a patent for the land from US President Andrew Johnson in December 1866. He used the land for agricultural purposes, farming and raising cattle. A commonly accepted legend states that Sloan dug a well on the land, inadvertently tapping into an underground aquifer, and that when he awoke the next morning, part of his farm land was covered in water.[3] That flooded this part of what was known as South Golden Road, and the realigned thoroughfare now known as Colfax Avenue would become the major east-west thoroughfare in this part of the city. However, according to gold rush era stagecoach driver Bill Turner, the lake appeared sometime between when he left for Kansas in June 1861 and when he returned in early 1863.It is possible that Sloan occupied the land prior to patenting it. The lake once exceeded 200 acres (0.81 km2) and extended north and west beyond its current size, but portions were filled north of 25th Avenue and west of Sheridan Boulevard.

The area surrounding the lake was once home to an amusement park and swimming facility known as Manhattan Beach. Opened to the public 27 June 1881, it was the first amusement park to be built west of the Mississippi River (it burnt down in 1908 and was rebuilt as Luna Park later that year); mishaps and competition from other such attractions in the vicinity (Elitch Gardens and Lakeside Amusement Park) led to its closure in 1914. Cooper Lake, a separate body of water just southeast of Sloan's Lake, fell under the jurisdiction of the federal Works Projects Administration in the 1930s, and a plan was developed which involved building channels beneath the surface of the water on both lakes. This essentially created one body of water that has commonly become known as Sloan's Lake. The size of the present-day combined Sloan's Lake and Cooper Lake is 177 acres (0.72 km2).

At 177 acres (0.72 km2), Sloan's Lake Park is the second largest park in Denver (after City Park). Typical activities at Sloan's Lake include hiking, jogging and bicycling on the trails and sidewalks that surround the lake, and fishing and boating on the lake itself. There are basketball and tennis courts located in the park. An annual event known as the Dragon Boat Festival attracts thousands of visitors each summer, celebrating Asian American culture and civilization.

The population of the neighborhood is approximately 8,500 residents. According to the 2000 census, the average household income is $48,300, somewhat less than the Denver city average. The neighborhood has a wide range of incomes, with about twelve percent of the population under the poverty line and 16.5 percent of the population making more than 200 percent above the Denver average. The housing stock in Sloan's Lake is likewise diverse with a wide range of housing and styles including 1920s bungalows to new, post-modern architecture. More than 55 percent of Sloan's Lake residents own their home, an above average figure for Denver. The average home sale price in Sloan's Lake is $259,000, nearly $20,000 less than Denver's average.

The neighborhood's total crime rate of 53 per 1,000 people is below that for the city as a whole.The population of the neighborhood is approximately 8,500 residents. According to the 2000 census, the average household income is $48,300, somewhat less than the Denver city average. The neighborhood has a wide range of incomes, with about twelve percent of the population under the poverty line and 16.5 percent of the population making more than 200 percent above the Denver average. The housing stock in Sloan's Lake is likewise diverse with a wide range of housing and styles including 1920s bungalows to new, post-modern architecture. More than 55 percent of Sloan's Lake residents own their home, an above average figure for Denver. The average home sale price in Sloan's Lake is $259,000, nearly $20,000 less than Denver's average.

Denver Sheriff Department

The Denver Sheriff Department is the third largest criminal justice agency in the State of Colorado, following the Denver Police Department and the Colorado Department of Corrections. Thirty percent (30%) of all inmates sentenced to the Colorado Department of Corrections are from the City and County of Denver.

Currently within the department are positions for 3 Division Chiefs, 6 Majors, 18 Captains, 70 Sergeants and 673 deputies and 119 civilians.

The Denver jails hold the distinction for being the first local detention facilities in the United States to be accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA). This distinction will again be realized with the opening of the Denver Justice Center. Both facilities also hold accreditation by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC).

According to the Department's web page, "The City and County of Denver does not have an elected sheriff, the Manager of Safety is the ex officio sheriff and the department is directly supervised by the Director of Corrections, who is also the Undersheriff."

The building on the right is the Pre-Arraignment Detention Facility in downtown Denver. The building on the left is the Denver Police administration building.

The Denver Sheriff Department was created on December 2, 1902 with the formation of the combined city and county of Denver. Both the manager of safety and undersheriff are appointed to office by the mayor of Denver and work at his/her pleasure. Since Denver does not have a sheriff per se, the agency is dubbed Denver Sheriff Department as an apostrophe defines possession. The DSD is named for the function of a sheriff per Colorado state law, not the actual sheriff as the other 62 counties of Colorado. Broomfield is another combined entity, which has the police department performing all of the sheriff functions. Denver deputy sheriff's only perform jail and court related functions, much like the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. The police are responsible for the patrol and investigative matters within the jurisdiction.

The DSD is very rich in history as the first sheriff's agency in Colorado. In 1858, James W. Denver appointed Edward Wynkoop as the first sheriff of Arapahoe County and Denver was the seat. Sheriffs and deputies of Arapahoe County were responsible for most of current day north eastern Colorado as well as the jails and courts. In 1902, the DSD assumed the current role with the chief of police also acting as the sheriff of Denver per the city charter. Hamilton Armstrong was the C&C of Denver's first sheriff. The sheriff agency was divided into the courts and the jails. Until the late 1950s, Denver Police operated the City Jail. The undersheriff was in charge of the courts while a warden was responsible for the jail. In 1904, the position of sheriff became elected and Sheriff Nisbet was elected by the citizens. Later in 1911, citizens approved the appointment of a sheriff and Chief Armstrong was again appointed to the office of sheriff. Daniel Sullivan was appointed after Armstrong and in 1913, a commission type government was established and Nisbet was appointed as commissioner of safety/ex officio sheriff. The commission style of government lasted until 1916 when the office of manager of safety & excise/ex officio sheriff was created. Dewey C. Bailey was Denver's first manager of safety. Denver's manager of safety is one of the strongest peace officer positions in Colorado. Managers are not typically peace officers, however most have been lawyers. Denver's first African American manager was Elvin Caldwell, Hispanic, Manual Martinez and the only female, Elizabeth McCann.

The new (2010) Van Cise-Simonet Detention Facility is the prisoner intake center for the City and County of Denver. Prisoners are processed into the system, booked, finger printed, and temporarily housed until such a time that they are able to make bond, or have been given an advisement by the court. The Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center was named after Philip Van Cise who served as Denver District Attorney from 1921-1925. Louis John Simonet was the Director of Corrections and Undersheriff for eighteen years. The facility is known as DDC or Downtown Detention Center.

Broncos Wide Receiver Eric Decker

Eric Decker (born March 15, 1987) is an American football wide receiver for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football and college baseball at Minnesota, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in business and marketing.

Early years

Decker attended Rocori High School in Cold Spring, Minnesota. He was present in school when the Rocori High School shooting took place, hiding in a cupboard with other students until they were rescued by police officers. At school he was a three-sport athlete in football, basketball, and baseball. In each sport he was awarded all-conference, all-area and all-section honors. Additionally, he was named football team MVP two years in a row. During his prep football career he had 2,156 receiving yards and 28 touchdowns.

College career

2008 season

Decker finished his junior season with 84 catches for 1,074 yards and seven touchdowns. He either sat out or played with leg injuries in several games.

2009 season

In early spring, Decker met with Thomas Goudy, a wide-out coach in St. Louis, Missouri. Goudy helped Decker with his ball-holding technique. Decker spent three weeks in his training camp before starting the summer conditioning camp.

Decker began the season with the consistent play that had been a hallmark of his Gophers' career. Through three games, Decker was sixth in the nation in receiving yards, averaging 124.8 per game. Sports Illustrated columnist Stewart Mandel declared Decker the third-best wide receiver in college football, behind Oklahoma State's Dez Bryant and Georgia's A. J. Green.

On October 27, it was announced that Decker would miss the rest of the season after suffering a sprained foot against Ohio State.

Denver Broncos

Decker in September 2010.

2010 season

Decker was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the third round (87th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft. Because of a foot surgery, Decker sat out the Broncos rookie mini-camp and OTA's. Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels said he hoped he'd be ready by the season's opener, “At this point we’re going to err on the side of being real careful and not put them in a situation where (it’s) the last day of minicamp on June 13th and all of a sudden we have a foot injury," said McDaniels."Hopefully everybody will be ready by August.”

On July 27, 2010, the Denver Broncos signed Decker to a 4-year contract. In the preseason, Decker led all NFL rookies in receptions, but due to the Broncos' depth at receiver, Decker didn't see much action in the offense until late in the regular season. He did contribute on special teams however, recording seven special teams tackles while returning 17 kickoffs for 429 yards giving him a 25.2 yards per return average.

Toward the end of the 2010 season, the Broncos did start to mix Decker into the offense more, after fellow rookie Demaryius Thomas (a first round draft pick) went down with an injury.[9] Decker finished his rookie season with 6 catches that went for 106 yards and one touchdown—a six-yard score off a Tim Tebow pass.

2011 season

Decker's role in Denver's offense expanded in 2011. In a Week 1 Monday Night Football loss to the Oakland Raiders, Decker returned a fourth quarter punt 90 yards for a touchdown, but the Broncos lost 23-20.

In Week 2, making his first career start, Decker hauled in 5 passes for 113 yards and 2 touchdowns, the second on a 52-yard catch in the 4th quarter as Denver recorded their first win of the 2011 season, 24-22 over the Cincinnati Bengals. On September 25, in Denver's Week 3 17-14 loss to the Tennessee Titans, Decker had a career high 7 catches for 48 yards. Over the next 4 weeks, Decker continued his steady play by hauling in 18 passes for 192 yards and 4 touchdowns.

On November 13, in a Week 10 divisional road game at Arrowhead Stadium against the Kansas City Chiefs, starting quarterback Tim Tebow attempted a pair of deep passes for Decker, the first almost being hauled in off a deflection and the other being knocked down by the defender. But in the 4th quarter, with Denver hanging on to a slim 10-7 lead, Tebow hit Decker on a go route deep for a 56-yard touchdown catch, Decker's only catch of the game and only Tebow's 2nd completion, as the Broncos won 17-10 to move into a second place tie in the AFC West with the San Diego Chargers and Chiefs. In the first round of the playoffs against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Decker was taken out of the game due to injury.

2012 Offseason

Heading into the 2012 regular season, Decker seems primed to have a productive year with quarterback Peyton Manning now running Denver's offense. On May 12, Denver Broncos' offensive coordinator Mike McCoy noted that Decker and fellow receiver Demaryius Thomas are "like two little kids in a candy shop right now," when asked about the receivers eagerness to work with Manning.

In April, Decker attended a Colorado Rockies' baseball game with Manning and began workouts with him prior to training camp.

2012 Season

Eric Decker had a breakout season in 2012. He had 85 catches for 1,064 yards and 13 touchdowns. He was number 20 in the league in terms of yards for WRs and the 13 touchdowns was the second most among WRs in the 2012 season.

Personal life

Decker is married to country singer Jessie James. In September 2013, James took to Twitter to announce that she was expecting the couple's first child.