Building Index – Buildings 201 A&B – 210 A&B

Located in the Lowry Officers Row Historic District, these 10 non-commissioned officers’ duplexes were part of the first new construction projects completed on Lowry Air Force base in 1939 at a total cost of $178,237.22. Army contracting officials utilized private contractors, Work Progress Administration (WPA) and Public Works Administration (PWA) personnel to complete the work. These buildings were numbered 201 – 210, with A and B designations for the separate units. Arranged in a hollow triangle, they also included a common garage structure in the center, Building 229.

Each house was a generic Army design, based on U. S. Army Standardized Plan No. NCO-9, Non-Commissioned Officers Quarters, Double Set. The plans reflect a common 1930s domestic design of a two-story brick home with a shallow hipped roof with no eaves, in this case with projecting one-story enclosed entrance porches. Each residence included an end-wall interior chimney. These buildings embody the distinguishing characteristics of the Mission and Art Moderne architectural styles.

These buildings have extraordinary importance to the historical development of Denver as New Deal construction projects stimulating the local economy and providing jobs during the worst of the Depression in Colorado. The original, permanent buildings within the boundaries of Lowry’s Officers’ Row and Technical Training Center Historic Districts comprise established, familiar and orienting visual features for Denver’s historic eastern boundary along Quebec Street from 11th Avenue to Alameda Parkway.