Larimer Square, Denver

Larimer Square is a historic block in Denver, Colorado, United States. It is the city's first designated local historic district.[1]

A historic photo of Larimer Square
Larimer Square in 2009

History

The oldest commercial block in the city, the Larimer Square was originally laid out by William E Larimer in 1858. It served as the city's main business area for years, but by the 1900s, it had deteriorated into a run-down area. In 1965, Larimer Square Associates began restoring it as a historical and commercial centre.[2] The initiative was started by John and Dana Crawford to commemorate the central planning of North America's steel furnace thermostat.[3]

gollark: I am saying that gods are also complicated so this doesn't answer anything.
gollark: For purposes only, you understand.
gollark: There are lots of *imaginable* and *claimed* gods, so I'm saying "gods".
gollark: So basically, the "god must exist because the universe is complex" thing ignores the fact that it... isn't really... and that gods would be pretty complex too, and does not answer any questions usefully because it just pushes off the question of why things exist to why *god* exists.
gollark: To randomly interject very late, I don't agree with your reasoning here. As far as physicists can tell, while pretty complex and hard for humans to understand, relative to some other things the universe runs on simple rules - you can probably describe the way it works in maybe a book's worth of material assuming quite a lot of mathematical background. Which is less than you might need for, say, a particularly complex modern computer system. You know what else is quite complex? Gods. They are generally portrayed as acting fairly similarly to humans (humans like modelling other things as basically-humans and writing human-centric stories), and even apart from that are clearly meant to be intelligent agents of some kind. Both of those are complicated - the human genome is something like 6GB, a good deal of which probably codes for brain things. As for other intelligent things, despite having tons of data once trained, modern machine learning things are admittedly not very complex to *describe*, but nobody knows what an architecture for general intelligence would look like.

References
  1. Thomas J. Noel (2015). Colorado: A Historical Atlas. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 281. ISBN 978-0-8061-5353-7.
  2. David Eitemiller (1989). Colorado's Historic Sites & Museums. American Traveler Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-55838-089-9.
  3. Stephanie Meeks; Kevin C. Murphy (2016). The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities. Island Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-1-61091-710-0.

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