Denver Architecture Foundation: Five Points Fortitude, Education-Integrated Audio Tour

FAIN: ZED-283786-22

Denver Architecture Foundation (Denver, CO 80205-3979)
Pauline Herrera (Project Director: May 2021 to August 2023)
Michael Hughes (Project Director: August 2023 to May 2024)

The hiring of a program and operations manager and partial funding for two full-time staff to create a new audio tour of a historically Black neighborhood in Denver. 

Denver Architecture Foundation (DAF) is proposing the development of the Five Points Fortitude (FPF) education-integrated Audio Tour to highlight the history and architecture of Denver’s most famous, historically African American neighborhoods—Five Points-Whittier. Once known as the Harlem of the West, Five Points-Whittier is the seat of African American history in Denver and is still Denver’s African American cultural hub. Through this project, DAF will bring the perspective of the humanities to questions of racial justice through the lens of both architecture and the historical redlining and segregation that contributed to the development and history of this neighborhood. Further, the FPF Audio Tour will include a youth-focused version that will be accessible to the children and youth that DAF serves through the Cleworth Architectural Legacy (CAL) Project, which connects 500-700 youth (including 50% from Title 1 schools) with hands-on architectural education each year.