Denver’s Montclair neighborhood, founded as a town in 1888 and incorporated into the city in 1902, surrounds Denver’s fourth-named historic district — a narrow strip along Oneida and Olive streets that runs north-south between East Sixth and 12th avenues, and reaching east to Pontiac Street on 12th to encompass the Richthofen Castle.
Realtors Michael and Laurie Marcus of Coldwell Banker will show you a property Sunday, May 5, from 2 to 4 that lies just outside the historic district, across the street from Montclair Park and Civic Building — in Richthofen’s day, a live-in dairy designed to offer fresh milk and fresh air to recovering TB patients.
At 1205 Oneida St., you’ll see a home that wraps history in with new urban comforts, along with low maintenance. The original house built in 1908 always had an institutional quality — frequent changes of title sometimes with church entities, for very little money and “considerations.”
In 1948, St. James Catholic Church got hold of it as a nunnery for its direct access to its religious school across the alley on Newport Street, then passed it on to the Kempe Center, before a developer gave it back over to residential in an imaginative makeover.
Now, it has three units, technically townhouses, with the one you’ll see Sunday, May 5, being arguably the most attractive: facing onto the corner, with the appearance of a single-family home, a two-car garage, and a nice outdoor living space across from the park.
The price is $750,000, in a market with little inventory.
You’ll tour a four-bedroom/three-bath plan, around 2,800 square feet, including a finished basement suite.
The entry and formal areas show their genuine turn-of-the-century origins: an enclosed sun porch, living room and dining room separated by oak pocket doors, original fireplace now with a gas insert, intricate oak-spindle staircase, and vast reaches of oak flooring (the upstairs level is floored in pine, an economy from the era that kept the pricey finishes to the visitor areas).
The kitchen was updated in the transformation and was updated again by sellers Cory and Wayne Chancellor.
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