Denver’s Molly Brown House was almost lost to bulldozers. Now, it’s celebrating 50 years as a museum
A new exhibit on its storied past and present preservation efforts offers visitors a chance to step back to the days of Molly Brown and the decades-long restoration. Author: Monica Castillo (Colorado Public Radio News) Published: 5:43 AM MDT May 5, 2021 Updated: 5:43 AM MDT May 5, 2021
DENVER The musical “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” holds an interesting spot in Colorado history. It’s something Molly Brown House Tour Guide Pam Mahonchak regularly tells visitors.
> Video above from August 2018: Checking out the Molly Brown House Museum s facelift.
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Pam Mahonchak has been a guide since 1971 at the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver. Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.
The musical “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” holds an interesting spot in Colorado history. It’s something Molly Brown House Tour Guide Pam Mahonchak regularly tells visitors.
“Not all of the listeners will remember the original movie musical, ‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown,’ which debuted here in Denver in 1964 at the Aladdin Theater on East Colfax,” Mahonchak said. “I remember it it was my very first movie that I saw in a real movie theater, not a drive-in.”
That momentous occasion stayed with Mahonchak, but it wasn’t the full story of Margaret Tobin Brown. That story was about to get a new chapter in the wake of the popular Broadway musical-turned-movie.
The low brick building on the northwest corner of Grant Street and East Seventh Avenue began life in the early 1900s as a grocery store; it was built to take advantage of a new streetcar line running along Seventh, straight through a neighborhood where the Colorado Governor s Mansion had also just been completed.
Over the decades, many businesses have come and gone from this corner, but for the past twenty years, it has been the site of restaurateur Frank Bonanno s growing group of restaurants and bars. Mizuna opened at the west end of the property in 2001, followed soon after by Luca (facing Grant Street), Bones (which became Lou s Food Bar in 2019) and Vesper Lounge (which took over the venerable Lancer Lounge). Although the four businesses have separate addresses, their spaces are all owned by one company, the Sherman Agency, which recently informed Bonanno that it was considering options for the future, including the possibility of demolishing the structure.
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Haven t been downtown late? Here s a good reason to visit. Denver Night Lights debuted before the pandemic hit, but it continues to invite artists to create illuminating works that light up the Clocktower on the 16th Street Mall Tuesdays through Sundays after sunset. The March lineup, which is devoted to the Month of Photography, has the theme Reimagining Hope, and the work on display was created by members of Indigenous Photograph, a global community of visual storytellers who come from a diverse range of Indigenous communities across six continents. It debuted on March 2; find out more here.