Northglenn
On June 30, 1959, over 15,000 people came to view Perl-Mack Enterprises' five show homes built at the corner of 104th Avenue and Grant Drive. Named "the most perfectly planned community in America" by Life magazine, the developers named this new community North Glenn and built it into a community designed with designated industrial, commercial, recreational, and school areas around a central, regional shopping center—the Northglenn Mall. Facing annexation from surrounding cities, concerned residents formed the North Glenn Civic Association and encouraged residents to go to the polls in April 1969 to vote for incorporation. The name was changed to the City of Northglenn, and it went on to be a vital city, winning awards for revitalizing the largest park in its extensive park system, E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park with Webster Lake, as well as being named Tree City, USA, and Playful City, USA, several years in a row.
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Northglenn
On June 30, 1959, over 15,000 people came to view Perl-Mack Enterprises' five show homes built at the corner of 104th Avenue and Grant Drive. Named "the most perfectly planned community in America" by Life magazine, the developers named this new community North Glenn and built it into a community designed with designated industrial, commercial, recreational, and school areas around a central, regional shopping center—the Northglenn Mall. Facing annexation from surrounding cities, concerned residents formed the North Glenn Civic Association and encouraged residents to go to the polls in April 1969 to vote for incorporation. The name was changed to the City of Northglenn, and it went on to be a vital city, winning awards for revitalizing the largest park in its extensive park system, E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park with Webster Lake, as well as being named Tree City, USA, and Playful City, USA, several years in a row.
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Northglenn

Northglenn

by Elizabeth Moreland Candelario
Northglenn

Northglenn

by Elizabeth Moreland Candelario

Overview

On June 30, 1959, over 15,000 people came to view Perl-Mack Enterprises' five show homes built at the corner of 104th Avenue and Grant Drive. Named "the most perfectly planned community in America" by Life magazine, the developers named this new community North Glenn and built it into a community designed with designated industrial, commercial, recreational, and school areas around a central, regional shopping center—the Northglenn Mall. Facing annexation from surrounding cities, concerned residents formed the North Glenn Civic Association and encouraged residents to go to the polls in April 1969 to vote for incorporation. The name was changed to the City of Northglenn, and it went on to be a vital city, winning awards for revitalizing the largest park in its extensive park system, E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park with Webster Lake, as well as being named Tree City, USA, and Playful City, USA, several years in a row.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738596754
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 01/21/2013
Series: Images of America Series
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,012,581
Product dimensions: 9.22(w) x 6.36(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Author Elizabeth Moreland Candelario lives with her husband in Northglenn and is a member of the Northglenn Historic Preservation Commission. She assembled these images—many of them never before published—to showcase the history of Northglenn. The images in this collection were provided by the city, local organizations, churches, and residents.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 Farmland Becomes a Planned Community 9

2 Northglenn Grows Into a City 23

3 Social Organizations 49

4 Religious and School Life 63

5 Police, Fire, and Ambulance 79

6 Playful City, USA 99

7 We Love Our Glenn 119

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