Denver's Civic Center named a national landmark

Categories: wakeup call

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Civic Center Park.
It wasn't long ago that Denver planners had the crackpot idea of putting a new Colorado history museum underground in Civic Center Park, right by the McNichols building, once a Carnegie library. Cooler heads put the kibosh on that. And now Denver's Civic Center has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

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