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Every building has a history, and the sordid past of Niwot's Manifest Gallery influenced the theme of its new show that opens tonight: Red Light: Tragic beauties and other objects of desire.
Turns out that in the 1970s, the building that now holds the gallery was a brothel -- and not the respectable kind of brothel, either.
"It was incredibly disgusting," says co-owner Dia Kline. "Like a guy with his wife and her daughter, or something like that. We've had some neighbors tell us first-hand accounts of seeing police raid the place, and people run out the back."
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