– Denver’s weather this season has been fluctuating wildly between winter, summer, winter, spring, back to winter, etc. From 89º F one day down to 19º F. the next. February finished as the 4th warmest Feb. on record and March, typically Denver’s snowiest month, has often been a golfer’s delight.
But, back to these beautiful entrance gates.
– The Pearly Gates as many call them, lead to the expensive residential homes in The Denver Country Club Historic District. The planned community was conceived, designed, and built soon after the turn of the 20th century, when the first lots near the newly built Denver Country Club were platted. All was contracted by a famous architect of the day, Frederick Olmsted, Jr.
– Some of Olmsted’s other architectural projects are quite historic like the U.S. Capital Grounds; The National Mall in Washington; The Jefferson Memorial; and parts of the Biltmore Estate in rural North Carolina, and these are only a few.
– These Denver Country Club Gates are designed in the classic Craftsman Style that the Original Denver Country Club, Club House also embraced, but was eventually replaced with a Georgian Style structure. Most central Denver residents enjoy these gates as architectural eye candy, but few know an icon of American architect designed them.
At the time the Denver Country Club was organized and built-out, it was three miles outside of town. Currently the club is located in the heart of Denver.
(photo by Jack A. Atkinson ©2025)
