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.