Congress Park
Bungalows, gardens, and a true neighborhood feel east of the park. Congress Park’s brick Arts-and-Crafts bungalows, Denver Squares, and streetcar-era commercial corners sit between York Street and Colorado Boulevard.
Population & home ownership: ACS 2019–2023 · median age & rent: ACS 2017–2021 · Denver Open Data
WHO LIVES HERE
Owners and long-timers among the bungalows
Congress Park’s 44% ownership rate is the highest among the district’s core neighborhoods and its $971 median rent among the lowest. Nearly 3 in 10 residents are in their thirties.
Source: Denver Open Data, American Community Survey 2017–2021
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Registered Neighborhood Organizations
HISTORY
Streetcars, bungalows, and “Capitol Heights”
Platted in the 1880s as “Capitol Heights,” the area filled in once streetcar lines and Smith’s Ditch reached the prairie east of downtown. Queen Annes and Denver Squares gave way to the brick Arts-and-Crafts bungalows the neighborhood is known for today, alongside landmarks like the Stevens School lofts and the former Bonfils (Lowenstein) Theater.
Content prepared by Historic Denver, Inc., owners of the Molly Brown House Museum at 1340 Pennsylvania.
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