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.