The Spanish revival building at the corner of 19th Avenue and Grant Street in Uptown is either one of the “most beautiful pieces of architecture in America” or a “shuttered, vacant derelict in visible decline” — depending on which decade you view it from.
The favorable view was what a reviewer saw when Cathedral High School first opened in 1921, built and maintained by the Denver Catholic Archdiocese and respected for its strong academic reputation.
Schoolrooms wrapped a Moorish courtyard, joining them to an earlier rectory that had been preserved as part of its design, watched over by a four-story campanile…