Welcome to Krisana Park

Kris + Anna

Krisana Park is located in Virginia Village, a suburb of Southeast Denver County. The neighborhood is bound by Florida Avenue to the South, S Dahlia Street to the West, Louisiana Ave to the north, and Fairfax / Filbert to the East. There are a handful of other Mid-Century Modern homes surrounding Krisana Park proper that are similar in design, specially on Idaho, Cherry St, Forest Street, and Flamingo Way.

The neighborhood is close to bike paths along the Cherry Creek river, shops along Colorado Boulevard and Glendale. A local who lives in Krisana Park owns Esthers, a popular local neighborhood restaurant and watering hole. The neighborhood is also close to a few coffee shops, a garden center, a gym, a park, hardware stores, and a few other local shops and restaurants. Ellis Elementary is walking distance from the area.

Krisana Park is one of the only Mid-Century Modern neighborhoods that has a conservation overlay and has received an architectural award from Mayor John Hickenlooper. The streets are designed to be curvilinear in order to reduce through street traffic.

The Story

Krisana Park, like many Denver Area Mid-Century Modern neighborhoods, was previously farmland, more specifically an alfalfa field owned by the Noe family, headed by husband and wife Kristien (pronounced Christian) and Anna. Anna was of Danish royalty. (Click here for a live stream we did with Lori, great-granddaughter of the Noe family). The land was later sold to family friend and developer H.B. Wolff and his son to build a neighborhood on.

Denver was booming in population at the time, and developers were jumping on the opportunity to build homes that could be purchased with veteran’s VA benefits. The developers had fallen in love with the Mid-Century Modern design and architecture out in California, and the Eichler floor plans were being shared and built across the country. The homes were marketed as “3D Contemporaries” featuring a lanai area outside to enhance the indoor-outdoor connection. There are 175 homes in the neighborhood and they were built in 1954. The majority of homes were 1200 SF in size and have 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and 5 closets. Many original features included mahogany wood paneling, attached carports, aluminum windows, and asymmetrical floor plans. There were 6 different floor plans to choose from - 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, and 2F. The majority of homes in the neighborhood are either 2A or 2B models.