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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 15, 2020
Caption: Houses of Ill Repute Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom left) Olive Warren left Denver's red light district to create the Lucky Diamond at 2512 Minnesota Avenue, around 1900. She continued to operate this house of ill repute until her death in 1942. Her final resting place is the prominent mausoleum at Mountainview Cemetery.; (bottom center L) A 1903 Sanborn Fire Insurance map shows the "female boarding houses" in the 2400 block of Minnesota Avenue. Nellie Dalton's The Hub, Dutch Mary's Place, Victoria Kirk's The Mexico, and Kittie Evan's The Palace lined Minnesota Avenue's Restricted District.; (bottom center R) Announcement of the arrest of a "soiled dove," February 20, 1903.; (bottom left) News from the Restricted District on Minnesota Ave., July 15, 1917.
Submitted: March 15, 2021, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p573256
File Size: 3.127 Megabytes

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