Why Cheesman Park has its own termite considerations
Built for owners of Victorian mansions near the park and bungalow owners in the surrounding blocks.
Cheesman Park includes architecturally significant Victorian-era brick mansions closest to the park, which was originally sited on the historic Mount Prospect Cemetery grounds before its early-1900s conversion to parkland.
A wave of early-20th-century bungalows from a 1920s boom fills in the surrounding blocks around 6th Avenue and Downing Street, near the Denver Botanic Gardens.
The mansion ring carries the oldest, most ornate wood trim and detail work in the area.
A two-tier age structure — the oldest, most ornate wood-and-brick Victorian mansions ring the park, while somewhat newer but still century-old bungalows fill the surrounding blocks — both wood-frame-dependent.