Buildings on Colfax Avenue as it passes through Lakewood, Colorado.
Colfax Avenue is the main street that runs east-west through the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area in Colorado. As U.S. Highway 40, it was one of two principal highways serving Denver before the Interstate Highway System was constructed. In the local street system, it lies 15 blocks north of the zero meridian (Ellsworth Avenue, one block south of 1st Avenue), and would thus otherwise be known as 15th Avenue. The street was named for the 19th-century politician Schuyler Colfax. From west to east, it starts at Heritage Road in Golden as U.S. Highway 40 and the Business Route of I-70, and continues east through Lakewood and enters Denver at Sheridan Boulevard. (Courtesy of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
Along Colfax Avenue, Lakewood lies between Sheridan Boulevard on the east and Youngfield Street on the west, a distance of about five miles. Each of these web pages show buildings in address number sequence, from east to west, starting at Sheridan Boulevard on the eastern edge of Lakewood.
These photos where taken in three segments, all done by walking Colfax, twice. The first part was walking west on the north side of Colfax to a planned destination, then crossing Colfax and returning on the south side of the Avenue. I took photographs of buildings on both sides of the Avenue, walking in each direction. Some pictures were taken from the same side of the Colfax as a building, and others were taken from the opposite side of the Avenue.
Walking segments:
- Day 1: Walking from Sheridan to Wadsworth and back.
- Day 2: Walking from Wadsworth to Kipling and back.
- Day 3: Walking from Kipling to Youngfield and back.
There are errors and omissions. For example, if a store had a window with the address replaced, in some cases, the address might not have been replaced. In cases like this, the address was interpoliated between the addresses on each side of it. Interpolation was also used for vacant lots which have no posted address. Note that addresses on the north side of Colfax are odd-numbered, and addresses on the south side of the Avenue are even-numbered.
This compilation of photographs was made with an attempt to avoid showing recognizable people or automobile license plates. Where a picture had a readable license plate, I attempted to digitally wipe it out. In addition, I was patient in taking pictures across the Avenue in order to try to prevent photographing cars moving along Colfax.
Some cross street names were inadvertently missed. These pictures are, basically, snapshots for archival and research purposes. They are not intended to be artistic or of architectural quality.
The satellite pictures are intended to provide an overview of each section of Colfax. The streets that begin and end the section are shown at the right and left of the picture, respectively, but they aren't identified in the satellite photos.
Multiple views of some buildings were made to give a better perspective of the edifice for research purposes.
The photos are not copyrighted and may be used if attribution to David Barth is made with the picture.
Following the photograph pages is a table of addresses along Colfax, sorted in address sequence. The table is designed to be copied from the web page and pasted into a spreadsheet so that the researcher can sort it into a more useful sequence. The spreadsheet I used is Microsoft Excel. I did not test it with any other spreadsheet applications to determine compatibility.
The following link points to a large web page that consists of all of the above portions of Colfax Avenue, combined. My computer is not powerful enough to display all of the photographs, and for that reason, if the researcher has the same issue, it may be more desirable to view the buildings using the ten links that cover portions of the Avenue, above.
The following table contains addresses along Colfax, sorted in address sequence. The table is designed to be copied from the web page and pasted into a spreadsheet so that the researcher can sort it into a more useful sequence. The spreadsheet I used is Microsoft Excel. I did not test it with any other spreadsheet applications to determine compatibility.