Daniels & Fisher Tower, Denver

I was back in the air today and ended up back in Denver.

This iconic Denver building is the Daniels & Fisher Tower, all that remains of the Denver department store of the same name.

From the Coloradoencyclopedia.com website:

Rising 330 feet above Sixteenth Street, the Daniels and Fisher Tower in Denver was based on St. Mark’s Campanile in Venice and opened in 1911 as a beacon drawing shoppers to the adjacent Daniels and Fisher department store. The Daniels and Fisher department store closed in 1958 and was demolished for Denver’s Skyline Urban Renewal Project in 1970–71, but the tower was spared and eventually converted into offices. The tallest structure in Denver for more than forty years after it opened, the tower continues to be one of the city’s most iconic buildings.

More of that article here.

In fact, when it was built it was the tallest building between the Mississippi and California. It was converted to offices in the early 80s and I once had a job interview in one of them!

The department store itself had already merged with the May Co Department store to become May D&F (later Macy’s) and was relocated further along 16th street at Court street and famous for its ice skating rink at the front of the store. THAT building was also eventually demolished in the 1990s and was replaced by the second tower of what’s now the Sheraton hotel which includes the Yard House restaurant.

May D&F was one of FOUR department stores along 16th street in downtown Denver! Now they are ALL gone!