Denver Historic Landmarks Map 2026

Denver's historic landmarks map shows where the city's designated buildings and districts sit. The city publishes the counts, the legend, the landmark list and the review rules behind it, and each answer sits on one of four city pages. This guide takes them in the order a reader uses them: the totals first, then the map, then the list, then the commission.

Denver has over 350 individually designated historic landmarks and 8 local historic districts, according to the city's Denver Historic Landmarks and Districts page. The two numbers measure different things. The landmark count is single designated properties. The district count is areas designated as a group. Anyone searching for Denver historic districts or historic landmarks in Denver can start from these two figures and then move to the map and the list below.

The city's Historic Landmarks & Districts map is the page to open first when the question is where. It uses two symbols. Individual landmarks appear as black dots. Historic districts appear in orange with dotted outlines.

Read the black dots as single properties and the orange outlines as the edges of a district. The map is an online page, so it needs no trip and no parking.

The map shows where landmarks are. The city's List of Individual Landmarks names them, which is the reason to open it: it is the written record of what is designated. The oldest designated structures on the Denver landmark list date back to the late 1800s. Two entries from the list are the Emmanuel-Shearith Israel Chapel, designated in 1968, and buildings on 8th Avenue, also designated in 1968.

Use the list and the map together. Find a name on the list, then look for its black dot on the map. The list is a PDF on the city's site.

The Denver Landmark Preservation Commission (LPC) oversees new designations and reviews proposed alterations to landmark structures, according to the city's Landmark Preservation page. Two kinds of decisions pass through it. One is whether a property becomes a designated landmark. The other is whether a proposed change to a landmark structure goes ahead.

An owner planning work on a designated building, or a reader curious about why a block looks the way it does, can start on that page.

How many historic landmarks does Denver have? Over 350 individually designated historic landmarks, per the city's landmark and district page.

What are Denver's historic districts? Denver has 8 local historic districts, shown in orange with dotted outlines on the city map.

What does the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission do? It oversees new designations and reviews proposed alterations to landmark structures, per the Landmark Preservation page.

How do I read the Denver historic landmarks map? Black dots are individual landmarks. Orange areas with dotted outlines are historic districts.

Updated 2026-10-11: replaced unsourced dates, district descriptions and tax figures with the city's landmark counts; added the map legend and landmark list; stated the Landmark Preservation Commission's role.