Colfax Elementary School

Colfax Elementary was founded in 1887, beginning as a one-room brick building and a portable frame building. The first students lived on Stuart Street and scattered farms and houses south of Sloan's Lake. Over the years, the school expanded to serve the growing number of children in the neighborhood. A major 1988 renovation established a second floor, 12 new classrooms, cafeteria, multipurpose room/gymnasium, library and new office space.

Photo and text credit: OAHP, History Colorado and Denver Public Library Western History Genealogy Department

1526 Tennyson Street
Denver, CO 80204