The Five Points landmark has seen a lot of history, and the future could finally be looking bright.
The property at 2650 Welton Street is one of the most iconic buildings in the Five Points neighborhood. But since the 1960s, it has been the focus of a series of failed development projects designed to revive this landmark of Denver’s historic
It's been a long road to get to this point, one that reveals some of Denver’s best history — and its worst.Built in 1912 at the heart of Five Points, the triangular building was originally known as the Baxter Hotel, named after Robert Baxter, who owned the Baxter Cigar Company. Baxter hired George Louis Bettcher to design the hotel, a prime example of Beaux Arts architecture.
Mary Baxter took over the Rossonian in 1932, then sold it in 1937 to the Metropolitan Real Estate & Investment Company, where A.H.W. Ross was an attorney. The company renovated much of the interior during the 1940s. In 1965, the Caldwells again put the Rossonian up for sale, asking $47,000 for the lounge and restaurant and $85,000 for the hotel."It attracts little else but trouble," Elvin Caldwell told theThey couldn’t find a buyer. So in 1967, they leased the Rossonian to Jerry Roseman; the next year, he passed the deed to Vera and Joseph Hamilton, who considered selling the hotel to the city so that it could be converted into a Denver County Jail work-release facility or halfway house.
By then, it had been announced that the city's first light-rail line would be built along Welton Street, as part of a revitalization plan. "We're getting the boards off the windows," then-Mayor Webb told theloaned Yates almost $2.2 million Demolition of the building was out of the question; the Rossonian had been designated a landmark on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. In 2002, Five Points was named Denver's first cultural historic district, which offered further protection. But while the Rossonian was protected, it continued to deteriorate.
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