Recap: 2024 East High School Tours
Join Denver Architecture Foundation for an inside look at one of Denver’s architectural gems – Denver East High School!
About the tour: Guests explored the halls of East High School with an alum as their guide. After outgrowing the “Old East” building in Downtown Denver, East High School as we now know it has been standing since 1925 on one of Denver’s most historic streets – Colfax Avenue. Attendees learned about the influence that Denver’s early history of mining and agriculture had on statues outside of the building and how “Old East” student turned architect George Hebard Williamson designed the new building to resemble Old Hall at Oxford University. From the esplanade to the tower that offers a panoramic view of Downtown and the mountains, it’s sure to be a memorable tour!
About East High School: Sitting on the block surrounded by Colfax Avenue on the South, 17th Avenue on the North, Detroit Street on the East, and the Esplanade on the West, East High School is a piece of Denver architecture recognized and loved by many! While “Old East” at 20th and Stout could accommodate 700 students, East High School today houses over 2,500 Denver students each year. East High School’s operations are driven by their purpose statement: “At Denver East our caring community of unique individuals is driven by our great strength: our diversity. Academic, artistic, and cultural learning experiences develop the whole person and propel every Angel to success in learning and in life.”
About the tour guide: Marcia Tremmel Goldstein is a Denver native and graduated from East High School. She holds degrees from Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado at Denver, and a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her dissertation, “’Meet Me at the Ballot Box:’ Women’s Innovations in Party and Electoral Politics in Post-Suffrage Colorado, 1893-1898,” traces the bold footsteps of Colorado’s suffrage leaders into the all-male arena of politics after winning full voting rights in 1893. She is the author of Denver Women in Their Places: A Guide to Women’s History Sites (Historic Denver, Inc., 2002). She taught American and Colorado history at Arapahoe Community College and has presented hundreds of lectures on the history of Colorado women’s suffrage movement.
