9th Steet Park

The fourteen structures on Ninth Street Historic Park represent middle class housing of the late 19th century. The two earliest houses were built in 1872, while the grocery store on the corner (now the Mercantile Restaurant) and the two bungalows were constructed soon after the turn of the century. Five, and maybe six of the houses are territorial, built before Colorado became a state in 1876. Only two cottages are frame construction, for in 1874 Denver passed an ordinance requiring the use of brick to guard against the punishing fires that ravaged many early communities.