DENVER (KDVR) — The Royal Palace Motel was torn down on Tuesday, but a piece was saved a year before the Colorado Boulevard building’s destruction.
The over-50-year-old building covered in graffiti on 1565 Colorado Blvd was once a yellow and blue motel near Colfax Avenue. After being built in 1969 for a motel, it closed in 2013 and was vacant until it was finally torn down on Tuesday.
Royal Palace Motel on Colorado Boulevard near Colfax torn down
While it’s being replaced with apartment buildings, there are still traces left of the old motel in its heyday.
Jonny Barber with the Colfax Avenue Museum said he was able to save the sign about a year ago with some help.
Barber said the Laramar Group, which is redeveloping the site, wanted to preserve the sign, so they donated it to the Colfax Avenue Museum. So, around May 2024, Barber and the Freeman Sign Company brought down a small crane and loaded it up.
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