Hands down, the most eclectic neighborhood in Denver, and one of the oldest, is Five Points.
Close to downtown Denver and served by Light Rail, the now-trendy neighborhood is an engrossing mixture of old Victorian homes, many of them refurbished, new chic lofts and stylish apartment buildings, stately old African-American churches, shops and stores old and new, fine restaurants, coffee shops, schools and venerated institutions.
Dubbed Five Points because the neighborhood, bounded by Park Avenue West and Stout, Tremont and Downing streets, collided with downtown Denver's diagonal grid and East Denver neighborhoods and created a five-way intersection, or Five Points. Known for its storied jazz history and Denver's first predominantly African-American neighborhood, Five Points is home to the Black American West Museum and Heritage Center and the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library.
Denver's Juneteenth festival, drawing over 100,000 people annually, culminates at Welton Street with street performers and hundreds of vendors selling their wares.
Whittier Elementary School occupies a small red-and-brown brick building at Downing Street and 25th Avenue and several blocks away sits the old Zion Baptist Church in a gray-block building with stained glass windows and topped with a tower. Colorful Victorian homes surround the church.
Residents can find just about anything they need at the shopping plaza at Washington Street and 20th Avenue, including a Safeway with Starbucks, Little Ceasar's, Happy Kitchen, Fashion Nails, and a liquor store, a laundromat, and a beauty supply store.
Five Points is home to the San Rafael Historic District (Noise Ordinance enforced) at Clarkson Street and 23rd Avenue, near the Carlton Arms Apartments, and also Denver Human Services and Phillip B. Gilliam Youth Services. Gilpin School, kindergarten through 8th grade, is settled in a two-story, red-brick building at California Street and 30th Avenue, close to the Agape Christian Church on California and 25th Avenue.
Five Points Media Center, which hugs the corner of Welton Street and 29th Avenue, is home for Free Speech TV, KBDI 12, and KUVO 89.3 FM, right across from a light rail stop.
Five Points Plaza at Welton and 26th Avenue and set in a handsome red-brick building, is inhabited by the Denver Motor Vehicle (no licenses), Welton Street Café, featuring Southern and Caribbean Cooking, U.S. Bank and C&B Cleaners. Around 27th and Welton is Soul Food, Hatter Dashery, and the historic Casino Cabaret at 2637 Welton Street, which opened in 1948, closed for five years and reopened in March 1997.
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