Alamo Placita Park

Alamo Placita Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Roughly bounded by Speer Blvd., First Ave., and Clarkson St., Denver, Colorado
Area	5.4 acres (2.2 ha)
Built	1927 (1927)
Architectural style	Moderne
MPS	Denver Park and Parkway System TR
NRHP Reference #	86002242
Added to NRHP	September 17, 1986

Alamo Placita Park is a park located in Denver, Colorado as part of the Alamo Placita, Denver neighborhood.

In 1911, the property for the park was acquired by condemnation decree. The city paid $30,450 to acquire the property from Speer’s Arlington Park Realty Company. The land totaled 4.64 acres (18,800 m²). In 1912 a bond issue was defeated that would have added the northern portions of the 300 block bounded by Emerson Street and Ogden Street to the park land.

The park land remained undeveloped until 1927, when landscape work finally commenced. Colorado’s premier landscape architect, Saco Reink DeBoer, designed the park. Speer hired DeBoer as Denver’s second landscape architect in 1910, a position he held until 1931. DeBoer designed parks and parkways in Denver and actively participated in city planning. The park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and he Colorado State Register of Historic Properties.