Little holdout house in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood now a historic landmark

A small holdout home in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood will probably be preserved as a uncommon instance of a bygone period after a unanimous Metropolis Council vote this month to call the 115-year-old dwelling a historic landmark.

Households from all backgrounds have known as the Currie/Dryer Cottage at 4450 N. Tennyson St. dwelling because it was constructed by Canadian immigrant and carpenter Arthur Wellington Currie in 1909, in keeping with metropolis data.

Currie constructed the home — together with a bigger bungalow subsequent door — however offered the property to Joseph and Josephine Dryer in 1913 after Currie’s spouse died.

The Dryers lived within the bungalow and rented the alley home to immigrants, widows, blue-collar staff, younger households and seniors, persevering with to be concerned locally regardless of the threatening presence of the native Ku Klux Klan, landmark preservation metropolis planner Abigail Christman stated.

“This little cottage is now one of many uncommon surviving residential properties from that point interval,” Christman stated at a Dec. 9 Metropolis Council assembly.

Alley homes had been early types of inexpensive housing that was once widespread — a handful had been constructed within the blocks across the Currie/Dryer Cottage — however have step by step disappeared. Most of that stretch of Tennyson is now occupied by multi-story residence buildings.

“My home will not be the largest and may not be probably the most glamorous, however I believe its greatest options are its historical past and that it’s one final uncommon instance of an alley home in Denver,” stated proprietor Daphne Salone, who spoke on the council assembly.