DENVER CITY & COUNTY
Chateau Apartments
900 Sherman Street, Denver
This 1921 building is an important local variation of the early twentieth-century courtyard apartment house. The Chateau reflects an important stage in the development of the inner city housing patterns that moved away from the single-family house toward a more affordable, community-oriented, urban arrangement while maintaining turn-of-the-century standards for natural lighting, ventilation, and privacy. The Chateau is an eclectic mix of Tudor, Craftsman, and Chateauesque styles, with its false half-timbering, verge boards, bracketed eaves, multi-pane windows, and stucco finish. The interior of the building preserves its original floor plan of fifty apartments. Most of the apartments retain their original built-ins and interior windows to the public corridor.
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