When the Children’s Hospital left Denver’s Uptown District for the Anschutz – Fitzsimons campus in Aurora a few years ago, both of the remaining Uptown medical institutions, St. Joseph Hospital and Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center, planned to add their own children’s facilities to help fill the void. St. Joseph completed their facility at 18th and Franklin last year, and now the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children is open on the Presbyterian St. Luke’s campus at 19th and High. The facility contains 53 beds and includes a total of 160,000 square feet. Here are a couple of photos I took this past weekend:

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Additionally, a medical office building is under construction next door between 20th and 21st on High Street:

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I’m happy to see that both institutions are making major investments in their Uptown campuses. There’s even another medical office building planned for nearby, which I will cover in my next post.

Finally, while it has nothing to do with the new RMHC, just a few blocks away at 19th and Franklin is one of my favorite buildings in Uptown—the historic Mullen Building on the St. Joseph campus.  Isn’t she an art deco beaut?

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The Mullen Building was designed by prominent Denver architect Temple Hoyne Buell. According to the St. Joseph Hospital website, the building was dedicated on October 12, 1933 as the Catherine Mullen Nurses Home, and it served as the hospital’s nursing school and dormitory until 1970.

Old and new, Denver’s Uptown District continues to improve.