Denver’s Country Club neighborhood is a trove of traditional architecture dating from the 1910s and 1920s. But agent Ann Atkinson with LIV Sotheby’s International has a rare, contemporary home in Country Club that happens to be the least expensive one on the market now in the historic district.
At 350 N. Marion St. she’ll show you a 4-bedroom/3-bath design that began life in 1923 as a bungalow, then had an extensive makeover in 1985 that gave it an updated look — a contrast to the classic revival styles in other parts of the neighborhood.
Elbow room
Atkinson, who lives nearby, said the home is an opportunity to be in a select, historic community, but with more elbow room than builders were delivering 60 years before, when interiors didn’t have the wide-open feel that later became popular.
“People get inside it and say, ‘This is cool,’” Atkinson said. She added that the atmosphere is more like the larger townhomes that builders began doing a mile east in Cherry Creek North around the same moment as the remodel…