West Washington Park and Speer

Pricing trends

West Washington Park prices a step below the park's east side and alongside Platt Park, while Speer's condominiums and townhomes offer some of the more attainable attached homes within a walk of both the park and downtown. 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 West Wash Park

West Washington Park and Speer are the neighborhoods between the park and Broadway, from Alameda north to the creek, where the bungalows and Denver Squares of the park blocks give way to the Victorians, brick apartment buildings and new townhomes near Speer Boulevard. They share Wash Park's walkability with a shorter trip downtown and a slightly lower price, and South Broadway's shops and music venues are at the western edge.

Location

West Washington Park runs from Downing Street west to Broadway between Alameda and Mississippi avenues; Speer continues north from Alameda to Cherry Creek and Speer Boulevard. The park is east across Downing, Baker and the Santa Fe Arts District are west across Broadway, Capitol Hill is north across the creek, and downtown is a fifteen-minute bike ride on the Cherry Creek Trail.

History and background

The land west of Washington Park was platted in the 1880s and 1890s as the South Broadway streetcar line opened the area to development, and the blocks nearest Broadway filled first with Victorian cottages and the brick storefronts of what is now Antique Row. Washington Park itself was laid out beginning in 1899 to the designs of landscape architect Reinhard Schuetze.

The bungalows and Denver Squares on the blocks toward the park came in the 1900s through the 1920s, as the park's lakes, gardens and boathouse made the neighborhood one of the city's most desirable. Speer, to the north, took its name from Mayor Robert Speer's boulevard along Cherry Creek, part of his City Beautiful program of parkways and parks in the 1900s and 1910s.

South Broadway's shops, music venues and bars kept the western edge lively through the twentieth century, and since the 1990s the neighborhood has seen renovation of its old houses and townhome construction along its Alameda and Speer edges.

Housing and architecture

The park-side blocks hold 1900s to 1920s bungalows, Denver Squares and brick cottages on 37- and 50-foot lots, with pop-tops and rebuilds common. Toward Broadway and Speer the stock shifts to 1890s Victorians, 1920s brick apartment buildings converted to condominiums, and 2000s to current townhomes and slot homes. The Alameda and Speer edges have the most new attached construction.

Parks and recreation

Washington Park's lakes, loop, flower gardens and recreation center are the front yard, and the Cherry Creek Trail runs the Speer neighborhood's northern edge toward downtown and Cherry Creek. Hungarian Freedom Park and Alamo Placita Park sit on Speer, and the Denver Country Club's grounds border the north end.

Dining, shopping and daily life

South Broadway between Alameda and Evans carries Antique Row, the Mayan Theatre, music venues, breweries and restaurants, and Old South Gaylord's restaurant row is across the park. The Alameda and Broadway corner holds grocery stores and services, and the Speer blocks are a short walk from the Golden Triangle's museums.