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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This Capitol Complex Master Plan evaluates agency needs, building conditions, Capitol Complex urban design issues and organizational structure relative to decision-making and funding and facilities planning and maintenance. This master planning effort seeks to address the recommendation of the Performance Evaluation of State Capital Asset Management and Lease Administration Practices audit dated November 2012 that states: "The State generally lacks...
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
This film takes you behind the scenes and tells the stories of the people who built and have worked in this magnificent building. It is a story that inspires a deep appreciation for Colorado's history, from the turbulent territorial era and the protracted process of constructing a Capitol building, to the Capitol's distinctive adornments utilizing glass, marble, bronze, textile and pigment to form unique portraits of the people and events that influenced...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The Beaten Territory finds Annie Ryan running a second-rate brothel in 1890s Denver with an eye toward expansion. By chance she encounters Lydia Chambers, a society woman suffering from a laudanum habit and a bad marriage, who owns a prized property on the infamous Market Street. Annies fortunes at the brothel turn on her niece Pearl, a pretty young girl swept up in Denvers underworld of jealousy, booze, and vice-until murder stalks the good-time...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Abraham Lincoln's portrait has been stolen from the Colorado State Capitol, and fifth-grader Silvie Blake is on the hunt for clues during her class field trip. Silvie is soon caught in a puzzling web woven around history, ghosts and her own family. As she solves one mystery after another she finds keys that unlock her past, an unexpected friendship, and a belief in herself that will change her life forever" -- from back cover.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"Crowning the summit of Brown's Bluff in the heart of Denver, the Colorado Capitol Building is among the great architectural treasures of the American West. As a living history museum and active seat of government, the Capitol provides a telling reflection of the people & politics that shaped Colorado amid interests as diverse as its landscape."--Container.
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