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American Smelting and Refining Company, Globeville Plant

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1889. 495 E. 51st Ave. off Washington St.

From the 1880s to around 1910 smelting was Denver's largest single industry. Of a dozen smelters which once darkened the skies but enriched the residents of the Mile High City, this is the sole survivor, its giant stack and nineteenth-century brick industrial structures separated by chain-link fencing and barbed wire from a surrounding wasteland. ASARCO was convicted in 1993 of polluting Globeville, the working-class town to which it gave birth, and ordered to begin a $38 million cleanup.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "American Smelting and Refining Company, Globeville Plant", [Denver, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-DV198.

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