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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Beneath the flower beds lies a Victorian cemetery, above them rises a concrete-latticed jungle dome, and every summer a sunken lawn between the two becomes one of America's loveliest concert venues. Denver Botanic Gardens at 1007 York Street occupies 24 acres in the Cheesman Park neighbourhood, on ground that served as the Catholic section of the city cemetery established by Denver founder William Larimer in 1859. The Gardens organisation incorporated on 3 February 1951 as a consolidation of the...