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Capitol Hill is the unofficial birthplace of Denver's preservation movement. Following the 1970s demolition of the Moffat Mansion (at 8th and Grant) Historic Denver, Inc. was created by concerned citizens in time to save another of our city's precious historic homes, that of the "unsinkable" Margaret Brown.
TUDOR (c.1890-1930s)
Tudor, which should imply a revival of architecture popular during Tudor (sixteenth-century) England, actually is loosely based on a variety of late medieval English prototypes. Some consider it to be a combination of Jacobean (James I, 1603-1625) and Elizabethan (Elizabeth I, 1558-1603) architecture and have coined the word “Jacobethan” to describe it. Unlike the Queen Anne style (also a misnomer) that preceded it, Tudor was mainly a masonry or masonry-veneered style. The first examples of the style were typically large architect-designed landmarks such as Denver’s Verner Z. Reed Mansion (1931) at 537 Circle Drive, by Harry James Manning.
During the 1920s and 1930s, with innovations in brick veneering techniques, even small inexpensive houses could be built in the style and it became extremely popular. Nearly every U.S. city boasts a Tudor neighborhood. The style was so popular that some historians have actually proposed using the word “Stockbroker Tudor” to describe this phase. The most common (although not necessarily universal) feature of the Tudor house is half-timbering with white stucco (or brick) infill behind, giving rise to the popular nickname “black-and-white house.” Tudor houses range from large rambling complexes to small cottages.
Now and then, one sees a Neo-Jacobean design. Jacobean was the brick high style favored in colonial Virginia and was based on the English manor houses of the time. In its revival form, it is occasionally seen but is usually categorized as a brick, parapeted version of the Queen Anne style.
Defining characteristics: 
• Half-timbering
• Steep roof
• Grouped tall, narrow, multi-paned windows
• Massive decorated chimneys
• brick
