Address: 1068 9th Street, Denver, CO 80204
Description: AHEC Executive Team Offices
One of the two oldest and loveliest residences on the block is the Italianate villa built by miller Charles R. Davis circa 1873. Over 100 years later, in 1974, this house, along with 1015 Ninth Street, was decorated as a Fourth of July project by the American Society of Interior Designers.
Davis was born in Chester County Pennsylvania, the descendant of an old and influential Welsh family. His grandfather had been a well-known physician, and his father, Isaac Morris Davis, was an officer with the American Army during the War of 1812 with England. Davis brought his wife, Betsey, and fourteen-year-old daughter west from Illinois in 1870. Young Annie Kate was appalled when the train, one of the first connecting Denver with the East, stopped on the Colorado plains so that passengers could shoot buffalo near the tracks. Upon Kate's marriage to Stephen Knight, her father would build the house at 1015 Ninth Street as the couple's residence.
The full porch across the front has fine "carpenter Gothic" details. The cubical villa has projecting bracketed eaves, and the iron fence (with original gate posts) surrounding the house is set in a low, red sandstone wall.