39.7392°N / 104.9903°W · United States
One corner explains this whole sheet: Broadway and Colfax. North-west of it, the streets run on the slant of the creek; on every other side they are set to north. Near that corner the two systems meet, and the engraved point sits right beside it.
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The South Platte crosses the sheet from bottom to top, left of centre, as a thin line of water shadowed by the heaviest strokes of the drawing, the motorway. Cherry Creek comes in from the right, low on the sheet, on a long diagonal, framed by a road on either bank, and joins the river towards the upper left. Around the last stretch of the creek, the old centre is laid out on the diagonal, its streets parallel to the water; everywhere else, the city runs on a grid set to north. The two meet along Broadway and Colfax, by the engraved point, where blocks on the slant end in triangles against the straight lines of the newer city.
To the right, large green patches break the grid: City Park near the right edge, with its lakes, a smaller green below it, and Washington Park, with its own lakes, at the bottom of the sheet. On the west side, beyond the river, the curves of the motorway interchanges are the largest shapes. The mountains to the west have no relief on this map and lie well beyond the left edge; the rail yards along the river are drawn too pale to read.
The real subject here is an angle: give the streets enough contrast with the background for the meeting of the two grids to read at a glance, and keep the darkest ink for the motorways along the river. The water is thin, a creek and a river drawn as threads, so it needs an ink strong enough to hold a narrow line. Green comes in a few large patches, the parks with their lakes; a mid-toned green gives them weight without competing with the grid.
Portrait, on the engraved point, which sits on Civic Center: the diagonal centre and its meeting with the newer grid in the middle, the river to the left, the creek on its diagonal, City Park at the right edge and Washington Park at the bottom. The mountains lie far beyond the left edge. Pull back and the diagonal patch shrinks into the grid around it; come closer and the triangles along Broadway sharpen, at the cost of the parks.
The title, one line under it, the coordinates. The map shows Denver at the meeting of two directions; the caption can add a third, the one that led you home.
Sixteen inks, in the configurator’s order. It is not in the catalogue, but you will find it in the palette library, filed under its material.
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In 1858 miners founded the town of Auraria near the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, on the land between the two; in 1860 it was combined with nearby Denver, across the creek. On the sheet, the old centre still lies on both sides of the last stretch of the creek, close to the point where it meets the river, with its streets set on the diagonal of the water rather than on the compass.
In 1917 Edward H. Bennett drew the lasting plan of Civic Center, opened in 1919: an east-west axis four blocks long that connects the Colorado State Capitol with the City and County Building. It lies where the diagonal centre meets the grid set to north, around the engraved point; on the sheet it is a small green rectangle, clearer when you come closer.
Speer Boulevard was completed in stages between 1906 and 1918, tracing the course of Cherry Creek and running diagonal to the city grid, as part of a City Beautiful system of parkways. On the sheet, it is the pair of roads that frame the creek along its whole diagonal, from the right of the sheet to the old centre.
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A five-way crossing, a triangle of grass, a block that ends in a point: the small oddities of a city built on two directions. This sheet keeps all of them, down to the odd corner by your door.
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