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Last Updated: Jun. 12, 2018 · 7:40 p.m.

Stone lions, most in Capitol Hill, March 27, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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The stone lions of Capitol Hill are relics of a historic effort to look sophisticated

Hey there Denverites, it's reader-question time once again, that moment where we go all-out to find answers to your local curiosities, no matter how big or small.

Phil Watkins at work on a window possibly made by his great-grandfather for the Molly Brown House. The workshop at Watkins Stained Glass, Jan. 18, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Booms, busts and stained glass: Four generations of one family have outfitted Denver homes

The Watkins family history is also a tale of Denver's growth.

A sign over Colfax Avenue in Aurora. (Courtesy Aurora History Museum Photographic Collections)

Colfax gets another museum treatment — this time in Aurora

Only pockets of old Colfax through Aurora survive, so curator Jennifer Cronk did the next best thing.

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Stapleton residences under downtown Denver's skyline. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Stapleton’s name change debate is about the nature of community, and that’s why it’s so divisive

Events on the other side of the country have revived the debate about calling Stapleton by the name of Denver's Klan mayor.

Robi "Wolf" Salo leads the Colorado Guardian Angels on a small Saturday evening patrol, Aug. 14, 2016. (Kevin J. Beaty)

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Meet the unarmed squad of red berets who came to clean up Cap Hill

The Colorado Guardian Angels have seen the neighborhood transform since its rough-and-tumble days. Few know the "wicked" drag as intimately as they do.

A synagogue in Lakewood that was once used by the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society. It was re-constructed in 1925 and now sits on the campus of the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Sept. 18, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Colfax Week

Jewish pioneers built the miniature downtown near Mile High — and a legacy on Colfax

Jewish immigrants were part of those first colonial population booms that shaped the city and state -- and they left their mark on Colfax Avenue.

Never-completed plans for the Skyline Freeway through downtown Denver. (Courtesy Historic Denver)

Path of destruction: See the downtown Denver highway that almost happened

If the plan had been enacted, the freeway would have swept from I-25 to I-70, charging through Lower Downtown between Blake and Larimer streets.

An old Arapahoe Courthouse griffin inside Scherer Metals Inc. on Larimer Street, Sept. 6, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Why are griffins hidden all over Denver?

A silly quest to find some artifacts might have revealed something deeper about the city's very identity.

"Gertie Gargoyle" perched atop South High School. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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LOOK: South High’s grotesque gargoyles preserve Denver’s odd architectural legacy

South High, adorned with severed heads and mythical beasts, is a symbol of Denver's ambition to become more than a sleepy cow town.

The Brown Palace Hotel's historian Debra Faulkner displays original blueprints inside the hotel's archive, Aug. 4, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Henry Brown’s legacy: Denver’s skewed street plan and the 125-year-old Brown Palace

The hotel turns 125 years old this month. Its historian, Debra Faulkner, was kind enough to offer a sneak peek at the artifacts and stories that will soon be on display.

View of the Arapahoe County courthouse between 15th (Fifteenth) and 16th (Sixteenth) and Tremont and Court Streets in Denver, Colorado. Circa 1900. (Harry H. Buckwalter/Denver Public Library/Western History Collection/CHS-B339)

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A Denver relic for sale on eBay conjures memories of the city’s resistance to change

I learned in my own research that the courthouse became an early symbol of turmoil over the city's growth, a tradition that persists into the present.

Two military tanks parade through Arvada in 1927. (William L. Ford/Western History & Genealogy Dept./Denver Public Library)

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A horse tie in front of 1144 N. Pearl Street. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Those mysterious stone pillars in Capitol Hill are vestiges of Denver’s horse-drawn history

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Harry Hoffman's liquor store at Curtis and 18th streets, circa 1950s. (Burnis McCloud/Western History & Genealogy Dept./Denver Public Library)

Denver news in 5 minutes: What you need to know today, June 27

"'Bucking Mustangs'. The number of injuries suffered by Cody’s Wild West show performers is unknown. However, the pay was good and the cowhands and Native Americans in his show went from the Great Plains to performing in front of the crowned heads of Europe." (Courtesy)

Denver historians release Buffalo Bill coloring book as break between books with words

Color inside the lines - or dont!

Denver police putting on riot gear at Mile High Stadium in 1969. ( Rocky Mountain News Photograph Collection/Western History & Genealogy Dept./Denver Public Library)

Denver news in 5 minutes: What you need to know today, June 6

An aerial view of Denver in 1976 approaching Stapleton Airport. (Nick DeWolf/Courtesy the Nick DeWolf Foundation)

The destruction and rebirth of 30 blocks of downtown Denver in six images

Downtown Denver, 1908. (Library of Congress)

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History in color: Find your Denver neighborhood on the Google Maps of 1908

This colorful pictorial map from 1908 is a painstakingly crafted document that captures Denver just ahead of World War I.

A drawing depicting "B's Ballpark," home of the bears with a peaking green rear wall. (Denver Public Library/Western Hisory Collection/Karle Seydel Papers)

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LOOK: Before there was Coors Field and the Rockies, Karle Seydel imagined Union Park for the Denver Bears

A poster of Union Park expanding before Union Station and a polished, modern city encapsulates his vision. Seydel calls it the "Field of Denver Dreams."

The front page of The Rocky Mountain News on Nov. 29, 1969.

A Denver cop’s death certificate said “diabetes,” but his partner knew that wasn’t right

Mike Dowd was shot chasing an escaped murderer 28 years before he actually died. It took relentless persistence to prove the connection.

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