Montclair and Mayfair

Pricing trends

Montclair and Mayfair price below Hilltop and Park Hill and above Lowry's attached homes, with renovated Tudors and the 1890s houses of the historic district at the top and original 1950s ranches offering the entry points. The Denver table below carries the citywide numbers.

Citywide figures for Denver. Source: Local Market Update, August 2026, REcolorado data compiled by the Colorado Association of REALTORS®. Neighborhood-level figures vary; ask me for comparables on any specific home. See all area tables.

About Montclair

Montclair began in 1885 as its own town, planned as a health resort on the plains east of Denver, and its Richthofen Castle and the Montclair Civic Building still stand among the 1920s to 1950s brick homes. Mayfair, just north, is a 1930s to 1950s neighborhood of Tudors and ranches around the 9th and Colorado area. Both are calm, central and less expensive than Hilltop and Park Hill, which border them.

Location

Montclair runs from Colfax Avenue south to 6th Avenue between Monaco Parkway and Quebec Street, with Mayfair just west between Colorado Boulevard and Monaco. Lowry is east, Hilltop and Crestmoor south, Park Hill and Central Park north across Colfax. Downtown is about five miles west along 6th Avenue or Colfax.

History and background

Montclair was founded in 1885 by Baron Walter von Richthofen, a Prussian nobleman who promoted the high, dry plains east of Denver as a health resort for tuberculosis patients. He built a castle for himself, laid out a planned town with wide streets and a casino, and incorporated Montclair as its own municipality in 1888. The silver crash of 1893 ended the resort dream, and Denver annexed the town in 1902.

The Richthofen Castle and the Montclair Civic Building, built as the Molkery sanitarium in 1898, still stand, and the blocks around them were designated a Denver historic district. Most of the neighborhood's houses came later, in the Tudor, bungalow and ranch waves of the 1920s through the 1950s, as the city filled in toward Lowry Field.

Mayfair, the neighborhood just west, was platted in the 1930s and built out through the 1950s on the land between Colorado Boulevard and Monaco Parkway. The former University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at 9th and Colorado, which anchored the area for seventy years, was redeveloped after 2015 into the shops, apartments and restaurants that serve both neighborhoods today.

Housing and architecture

Montclair's streets hold 1890s to 1910s houses from the original town, 1920s and 1930s Tudors and brick bungalows and 1940s and 1950s ranches on 50- to 75-foot lots, with the Montclair historic district protecting the older blocks. Mayfair is mostly 1930s to 1950s Tudors, Cape Cods and ranches, with new townhomes and condominiums at the 9th and Colorado redevelopment on its western edge. Pop-tops and scrapes are common on both sides.

Parks and recreation

Montclair Park with its recreation center, Mayfair Park, Kittredge Park and the Lowry sports fields serve the neighborhoods, with City Park and the Cherry Creek Trail each a short ride. Lowry's Great Lawn and Crestmoor Park are within walking distance of the southern blocks.

Dining, shopping and daily life

The 9th and Colorado development holds a King Soopers, restaurants, a theater and the Hale Parkway shops, and Colfax carries diners, the Lowenstein Theater and the Tattered Cover. Lowry Town Center and Hangar 2 are east, and the Cherry Creek shopping district is ten minutes south.