Cheesman Park
A close-in city feel with tons of historical character and a relaxed, leafy pace. One of Denver’s oldest communities, Cheesman’s turn-of-the-century mansions (now largely apartments) line tree-shaded streets around the park and its neoclassical pavilion.
Population & home ownership: ACS 2019–2023 · median age & rent: ACS 2017–2021 · Denver Open Data
WHO LIVES HERE
Older, well-off, and mostly renting
At a 36.9 median age Cheesman skews a touch older than Denver, and about 3 in 10 homes are owner-occupied. Rents run below the city median ($981 vs $1,143), and more than half of residents are in their 20s and 30s.
Source: Denver Open Data, American Community Survey 2017–2021
GET INVOLVED
Registered Neighborhood Organizations
HISTORY
From frontier cemeteries to City Beautiful
The land around Cheesman Park began as a cluster of 1800s cemeteries before Mayor Robert Speer’s City Beautiful era remade it. Alice Cheesman funded the 1909 Colorado-marble Memorial Pavilion in her late husband’s honor; grand homes like the Stoiber-Reed-Humphries Mansion and landmarks such as the Boettcher Conservatory and Dora Moore School followed.
Content prepared by Historic Denver, Inc., owners of the Molly Brown House Museum at 1340 Pennsylvania.
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