Call NumberDPL-DENVER-334CreatorLieberman, NathanielContributorI. M. Pei & PartnersDate1979SummaryConstructed in 1892; Built for Reverend Horace Baldwin Hitchings, who came to Denver in 1862 to be the minister of St. John's in the Wilderness, and Episcopalian parish that eventually built St. John's Cathedral. In 1869, Hitchings left Denver to return to Trinity Church in New York City. Reverend Hitchings came to Denver in December 1862, at the age of 32, to become the minister for the Episcopalian Faithful at St. Johns of the Wilderness, a tiny frame building at 14th and Arapahoe. His home was East Haddam, Connecticut, where his family went back to the early settlers. While serving the church in Denver, Reverend Hitchings developed many friends. Among them were Charles and Luther Kountze, who came to Denver in 1863, and opened Kountze Brothers Bank (later to become Colorado National Bank). During January 1869, Reverend Hitchings, left Denver to become the assistant minister in the Trinity Church on Wall Street, New York City. In his absence from the city, his long time friend, Charles Kountze, handled his financial affairs and it was he, as Hitchings Attorney-in-fact, developed 1620 Market Street in 1892.Physical Description1 color photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.)Subject16th Street Mall (Denver, Colo.)--HistoryUrban renewal--Colorado--DenverSixteenth Street (Denver, Colo.)Geographic AreaDenver (Colo.)CollectionPhotographs - DenverType of MaterialPhotographDigital Version Created FromOriginal owned by Denver Public Library. Located in C Photo Collection 455, PhotoBox 1 Envelope 33; Image file envelope labeled: Sector 33, Market/16/17th Streets, negatives 329-337; Negative labeled: 334Original Material Found in CollectionC Photo Collection 455. Thorney Lieberman photograph collectionNotesHigh-resolution file not available.
Photo during or around 1979. Thorney Lieberman was the principal photographer for the architectural firm of I.M. Pei and Partners (1971-1991). Images taken by him document 16th Street, Denver, Colo. before the creation of the 16th Street Transit Mall, more commonly known as the 16th Street Mall. Views encompass both sides of 16th Street starting at the corner of Colfax and Lincoln Streets, then proceeding north along Lincoln to 16th Street, then northwest along 16th Street across Broadway to Larimer Street.""; Series 33, Image 334Languageeng
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Lieberman, Nathaniel, Hitchings Building - 1610 Market St Denver (1979) (1979). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 15/02/2026, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/144943
