The recent news isn't the whole story about this landmark Denver school.
But construction of the first public school would take eleven years — there was no money to build. In 1872, the Arapahoe School was built for Denver’s new District 1, named for the street on which it sat between 17th and 18th streets. It graduated its first class of students in 1877, when the school population voted to establish the school colors: white and carmine, a deep purplish-red that was, perhaps not coincidentally, the only colored ink available in Denver at the time.
The Arapahoe School is considered to be the real start of East — James H. Baker was hired in 1875 to serve as principal, and he’s considered the first East principal — but the school only lasted in that location until 1882. Owing to the rapid economic growth of the surrounding downtown blocks, the land was considered too valuable for a school, and it was sold. The building became part of the Club Building, which itself was torn down in 1955.
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