Highland & LoHi

The town of Highlands was incorporated in 1875 on the bluff above the South Platte and annexed by Denver in 1896. Its most distinctive plat, Highland Park, was laid out to resemble a Scottish village — Argyle, Dunkeld, Caithness, Fife — and is now a National Historic District. What that leaves today is a housing stock that runs from 1880s brick Victorians and Queen Annes through 1900s Denver Squares to the modern townhomes that filled in around them after 2005.

Lower Highland, or LoHi, is the slope closest to downtown. The pedestrian bridge over I-25 at 16th Street put Union Station within a fifteen-minute walk, and the restaurant row along 32nd Avenue, Tejon and Boulder Street followed. Up the hill, the blocks between 32nd and 38th Avenues are quieter and more residential, with the bars and shops of 32nd Avenue a few minutes away on foot.

North of 38th Avenue, Sunnyside is a grid of 1920s and 1930s brick bungalows and small Victorians with a growing commercial strip along 44th Avenue and the 41st & Fox commuter-rail station on its eastern edge. Prices generally step down from LoHi to Highland to Sunnyside, which is why buyers who start their search near the bridge often end up a mile north.

Alesia has represented sellers of an 1894 Victorian on West Caithness Place and a two-suite home on Wyandot Street in LoHi, and buyers of a 1929 Sunnyside home on West 39th Avenue.