Active $1,250,000
2343 Dahlia St
Denver, CO 80207 · North Park Hill
Listed by Compass · Shurie Fletcher · MLS# 3946024
Tree-lined parkways, a hundred years of architecture, and a neighborhood that organizes itself.
Park Hill trades a step below Wash Park and Cherry Creek but well above the citywide medians, with the parkway blocks of South Park Hill at the top. Renovated bungalows with modern layouts, like the four-bedroom, four-bath homes buyers are asking for, are the scarce product here.
| Denver, August 2026 | Median price | Homes sold | Days on market | Active listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single Family | $635,000−5.6% vs August 2025 | 483 | 38average days | 1,874 |
| Townhome / condo | $360,000−10.0% vs August 2025 | 213 | 65average days | 2,002 |
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.
Park Hill is the big, leafy neighborhood east of City Park where the streets follow Denver's double alphabet and the houses span every style the city has built since the 1890s. It is known for its parkways, its block parties and garden tours, and for a civic history that includes one of the country's first voluntary integration efforts. For buyers who want a classic house with a yard inside the city, it is the neighborhood I compare everything else against.
Park Hill runs from Colorado Boulevard east to Quebec Street and from Colfax Avenue north toward 52nd Avenue, with City Park, the Denver Zoo and the Museum of Nature and Science on its western edge. Downtown is about five miles west; Central Park and the A Line to the airport are just east.
Where it sits. Park Hill is in northeast Denver, between Colorado Boulevard on the west and Quebec Street on the east, from East Colfax Avenue on the south to East 52nd Avenue on the north, just east of City Park.
Park Hill's streets follow Denver's double alphabet, with two names for each letter: a place or person, then a tree, plant or shrub, as in Albion and Ash, Bellaire and Birch, and Dexter and Dahlia. Before that it was farmland, dairies and brickyards. Developers turned it into tree-lined streets with attractive homes, and Denver annexed it in 1903.
Building boomed in the 1920's and 1930's and again in the 1940's and 1950's, leaving a mix of Victorian, Arts and Crafts and mid-century homes. By the 1930's it had changed from a streetcar suburb to an automobile suburb.
In the late 1950's, as restrictive covenants ended, the neighborhood went through racial conflict and blockbusting. In 1960 neighbors formed the Park Hill Action Committee to encourage peaceful integration, and civil rights pioneer Rachel Noel is among the neighborhood's notable residents.
Why people like it. People like Park Hill for its tree-lined streets, historic architecture ranging from Victorian to mid-century, the 1894 Park Hill School, a Carnegie library branch, and the nearby Park Hill Golf Course open space, which Denver acquired in January 2025 for parkland.
Fun fact. The same double alphabet runs east to Yosemite Street, with pairs like Quebec and Quince (Levette J. Davidson, Street-Name Patterns in Denver).
Sources and caveats for this history
South Park Hill, between Colfax and 23rd Avenue, holds the grandest homes: Queen Anne and Mediterranean Revival houses on Montview and 17th Avenue parkways, with Denver Squares, brick bungalows and Tudor Revivals on the side streets. North of 23rd the blocks shift to 1920s and 1930s bungalows and then to the ranches and split-levels of the 1940s and 1950s. Lots are generous by Denver standards, which is why so many homes here have been expanded or, like the Dahlia Street bungalow The Nest Team is listing, rebuilt from the studs.
City Park, Denver's largest urban park, is next door with the zoo, the museum, two lakes and the summer jazz series. Inside the neighborhood there are pocket parks, the Park Hill branch library and, since the city's purchase in 2025, the former Park Hill Golf Course land being planned as open space. Park Hill calls itself one big bike lane, with wide, calm streets and regular family rides.
The commercial pockets are small and local: shops and restaurants along East 23rd Avenue, the blocks on Kearney and Oneida streets, and the restaurant row on the Colfax edge. The annual Park Hill Garden Walk in summer and the Home Tour and Street Fair in fall are the neighborhood's signature events.
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Active $1,250,000
Denver, CO 80207 · North Park Hill
Listed by Compass · Shurie Fletcher · MLS# 3946024
Listings shown are listed by Compass and were imported from Compass on October 12, 2026; they do not update automatically. Source: RECOLORADO as distributed by MLS GRID. Listing information and disclosures
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