If you’ve been following this blog over the past couple of months, you know that Dave Dyer in Texas is researching the history of Steel’s Department Store, the long-defunct company that built in 1922 what is now the Sage Building on Block 162. Dave’s been kind enough to send me scanned images and articles from the Steel Company’s newsletters when they relate to the Denver store. For previous blogs on this topic, go here, here and here.

Dave is nearing the end of his stack of Steel newsletters, so this may be it. Here’s a page from the December 9, 1922 issue with a photo of the completed building (with fake clouds added, no less):

One other interesting photo from the same newsletter is of the Steel’s Denver warehouse:

No where in the newsletter does it say what street it’s on, but it’s clear from the photo that the street address for the warehouse is 2133 – 2139, and the taller building next door has an address of 2145. Anyone out there think they know what street the warehouse was on?

UPDATE: Thanks to Scott (see Comments) for figuring it out: 2145 is the historic building with the brewpub attached to Coors Field. The Steel’s warehouse building is no longer there… demolished to make way for the stadium or perhaps razed even before then. It was still standing at least in 1979 when the photo posted at the Denver History Tours blog was taken.