Boulder Historic Places Plan

PROPERTY OVERVIEW

Property Name: Location: Property Address: Latitude/Longitude: Legal Property Description: Parcel Tag: Acreage / Square Footage:

Glen Huntington Bandshell 4 Central Park (northwest corner, north of Boulder Creek) 1212 Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, CO 80203

40.0056 / -105.1643 Block 13 Boulder OT 146330357003 1.1 Acres / 51,000 SF

Date of Construction: Designer(s):

Bandshell (1938); Landscape (1939); Seating (late 1940s) Glen H. Huntington, Architect (1938) Saco Rienk DeBoer, Landscape Architect (1939)

DESIGNATION, ELIGIBILITY, & CLASSIFICATION SUMMARY

Ordinance & Listing Information

Current Designation Level

x Local Landmark State Register of Historic Places (SRHP) National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

City of Boulder Local Landmark No: Ordinance No: Ordinance Date: State ID: National Historic Landmark No:

95-4 5751 October 17, 1995 5BL5680

State & National Register Eligibility 5

State Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

Areas of Significance

Determined Eligible Delisted

Determined Eligible Delisted

Architecture Landscape Architecture Entertainment / Recreation

Recommended Period of Significance

Date Range: 1938 to 1968

Property Integrity: Aspects

Property Types

x Location Setting x Design Materials

x Workmanship Feeling x Association

District(s)

x Structure(s) Object(s) x Feature(s)

x Sites(s)

Buildings(s)

NRHP Evaluation Criterion 6 x Criterion A: The property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history Criterion B: The property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past x Criterion C: The property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction Criterion D: The property has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history

Individual Character-Defining Features of Property Types

District(s)

Structure(s) G. H. Bandshell Amphitheater Seating

Site(s) Central Park

Object(s)

Building(s)

Feature(s) Stone Retaining Walls Mature Groves of Tree

4 Glen Huntington Bandshell is used in this document as the name of the structure and associated site. It has been known as Boulder Bandshell, Band Shell, and Bandshell. 5 If none are checked, no determination of eligibility has been made. 6 Front Range Research Associates evaluated Glen Huntington Bandshell for NRHP Criterion in Boulder Bandshell Historical Study (1995).

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