The Historic Delos Allen Chappell House is located at 1555 Race Street and was built in 1895. Delos Allen Chappell was one of Denver's wealthiest residents at the turn of the last century and was a descendant of the American Revolutionary War hero, Ethan Allen.
Although the Historic Delos Allen Chappell House was designed by Frank Snell and built by the Burleigh Building Company, Delos Allen Chappell was her first resident and her namesake.
Construction on the Delos Allen Chappell House was started two years AFTER the Silver Crash of 1893. The Denver economy was weak and the Delos Allen Chappell House served as the beginning of the move away from the popular more elaborate Victorian style of the day and a shift towards the Neoclassical style represented in the Historic Delos Allen Chappell House.
The Iliff School of Theology was a subsequent owner of the Delos Allen Chappell House. In 1935, the Delos Allen Chappell House was rented to the Temple of Practical Christianity and in 1941, the owner, Mr. Charles Davis, sold the Historic Delos Allen Chappell House to the Unity Temple of Practical Christianity. That organization still owns the Delos Allen Chappell House today.
As a bit of trivia, the Historic Delos Allen Chappell House was used as the rectory in the filming of the Father Dowling Mysteries TV series from 1987 - 1991.
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