Tower of Memories

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 8500 W. Twenty-ninth Ave., Denver, 80033
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. building
Census division. Northeast Jefferson
Architectural style. Streamline Moderne
Architect. Charles A. Smith
National Register reference number. 87001725 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

1,553 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,553 fires within 5 miles of Tower of Memories between 2003 and 2020, burning about 315 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 34 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1326
Equipment and vehicle use	50
Smoking	41
Arson/incendiarism	34
Recreation and ceremony	24
Fireworks	18
Debris and open burning	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Natural	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Other causes	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	West Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	ARVADA
9 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	West Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	West Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Tower of Memories: 16 past producers, 11 occurrences, 6 producers, 2 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Sodium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Rio Grande Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1973
Rodger Steele Claim	Uranium	Prospect
Soda Lakes, Soda Springs	Sodium	Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lakewood Plant	Clay	Producer
Strainland Mine	Clay	Producer
Cooley Gravel Co. Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold	Past Producer	1951, 1964
Swadley Placers	Gold	Past Producer	1858, 1859
Youngfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold	Past Producer	1979
Allied Dirt Div Green Mtn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Crown Hill Burial Park	0.4 miles	2008
Davies' Chuck Wagon Diner	1.4 miles	1997
Jewish Consuptives' Relief Society	1.7 miles	1980
Richards Mansion	1.9 miles	1977
Fruitdale Grade School	2.0 miles	2013
James H. Baugh House	2.2 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001725 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 83 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.