…food and travel stories by Karren Doll Tolliver
St. Elizabeth of Hungary in downtown Denver on the Auraria campus dates from 1898. It has served the Catholic community since before then and sports Gothic/Romanesque architecture. It serves as the campus student chapel as well.
Home of the first Spanish-speaking Catholic parish in Denver, St. Cajetan's original structure (1926) still stands in the Auraria neighborhood. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture sports beautiful stained glass and is used for a campus center.
Historic Tivoli Brewery on the Auraria campus in Denver, Colorado. Dating from 1864, this beautiful old building is home to the Student Union, as well as the new rendition of the Tivoli taproom, bar and grill.
Come with me on a less-than-actually-spooky expedition to find a purported vampire's grave in Lafayette, Colorado, just north of Denver. Fodor Glava, who died in 1918, certainly left his mark by being from Transylvania and saying so on his tombstone.
Auraria campus in Denver, Colorado, shares a library and other facilities among three colleges: Denver Area Community College, University of Colorado Denver and Metropolitan State University of Denver. Here's a little history of the place before it became the campus in 1976.