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Golden History Moment
99 Years Ago
The August 30, 1923 Colorado Transcript announced that “MORE HOUSES MUST BE BUILT IF GOLDEN IS TO FORGE AHEAD.”
This was the fifth in a series of articles about “Golden’s Greatest Need.” This one was written by a real estate agent, who said he had received at least fifty calls from Denver people wanting to buy a house in Golden. He said that most of the homes that came on the market were so old-fashioned that people didn’t want them. “In fact, the housing situation here has become so acute that even the people who already reside here experience great difficulty in finding suitable living quarters.”
He stated that 600-700 students were expected to enroll at Mines that year, and Coors Pottery was hiring more employees. Where would they all live? He urged investors to build rental housing, saying that he knew of properties that were returning 16% net income, which could also be sold at a profit.
This has been a recurring topic for well over a century.
Colorado Transcript, April 3, 1901
As before stated in these columns our greatest present need is a good number of small modern dwelling houses for rent, and we still hope that all of our citizens who have the means will see the necessity of helping out along this line.
Colorado Transcript, October 19, 1916
Here we are, a town fitted by nature and climate for a great school center, a locality where the most romantic homes by the hundreds should be built and would be built by Denver business men…. Such homes should abound in Golden.
Colorado Transcript, February 12, 1920
It seems one of the greatest needs for Golden today is new homes.
Colorado Transcript, Number 23, April 11, 1935
There has been a shortage of houses in Golden for the last eight or ten years. At present this shortage is being acutely felt.
Colorado Transcript, Number 44, September 3, 1936
Everything is full. This is a distressing situation when scores of families, who are anxious to make their home in Golden, are looking for houses in which to live…. Thousands of dollars worth of business is being lost by Golden merchants every month because scores of families can’t find a place to live in Golden.
Colorado Transcript, Number 44, September 3, 1936
During the last few years thousands of beautiful and expensive new homes have been built between Golden and Denver, making of that area almost one continuous city with Denver. During all those years, Golden has sat smugly by, afraid someone might intrude and upset the old traditions of this community. It’s time to wake up and become a part of this growing, teeming life that is going on around us.
Colorado Transcript, Number 6, December 10, 1936
Here in Golden we have a house shortage that is acute. For more than a year families who would like to live in Golden have had to go elsewhere, because there were no suitable houses here for them to buy or rent. There has been a large number of houses and apartments built, but these have been snapped up before they were completed. It is time that persons with capital, interested in the future of Golden, should assist in relieving this situation. It is a good business proposition.
Colorado Transcript, Number 10, January 8, 1942
Some where in the vicinity of Denver and Golden hundreds of new homes must be constructed.
Colorado Transcript, Number 21, March 25, 1943
At least 200 homes could be rented or sold in Golden as fast as they could be made livable.
Colorado Transcript, Number 20, March 15, 1945
Never, under any condition, discourage anyone from building a new home or homes in Golden. Two hundred new homes here could be sold or rented in a couple of weeks–and if it were generally known in Denver that homes were available here, 1,000 houses would not supply the demand.
Colorado Transcript, Number 30, May 24, 1945
The Secretary of the Golden Chamber of Commerce, Bob K. Jennings, says he is tired and discouraged answering letters from World War II veterans wanting to come to Golden…and asking about living quarters for themselves and their small families. “No houses and none contemplated,” he must answer.
Colorado Transcript, Number 31, May 31, 1945
Besides the demand for houses for School of Mines students, there is a large number of persons who come to Golden every day to work, and any number of defense workers would gladly come to Golden if they could find a place to live.
Colorado Transcript, Number 41, August 7, 1947
Give us more good homes–Denver is crying for 15,000 new homes–Golden could use at least a thousand.
Colorado Transcript, Volume 99, Number 10, December 10, 1964
Many who work in Golden wish to live here but are turned back time and time again because of failure to find medium priced housing…. Many would prefer to live here because of the sense of belonging to a real community instead of living in a cow-pasture suburban sprawl without definition or identity…. It would seem an ideal time for the city, the Chamber of Commerce and others interested in Golden’s future to bend every effort towards stimulating major subdivision developers in the Lookout land for the construction of medium-priced housing in Golden.
Colorado Transcript, Volume 102, Number 30, March 10, 1968
One thousand families are ready to move into Golden tomorrow…. Golden has the people knocking at her doors trying to get in but there isn’t enough suitable housing for them.
Golden currently has about 8,700 homes. The City is presently conducting a study on our housing needs. The draft study, which was presented to City Council on August 16th, says that Golden will need 3,100 more housing units within the next 10 years.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
