Cherry Creek Tower

Cherry Creek Tower is nestled in a park like setting just south of the actual Cherry Creek.  Cherry Creek Tower began its life as part of a plan for a three tower apartment complex to be built in the early 1960s. The twin towers were to be called the Young Towers and were planned for the current sites of Cherry Creek Tower and the Polo Club, a third tower was planned for the western edge of the property.  Plans began to change as the financing dried up and the only building actually built was Cherry Creek Towers. The plural form of the name indicates there was still hope that additional buildings would grace the site. When Cherry Creek Towers debuted in 1962 it was both praised and scorned.

The classic international style building was designed by Denver architect Carl F. Groos, Jr, a student of Walter Gropius and an associate of I.M. Pei. Groos was the son-in-law of influential Denver architect and developer, Temple Hoyne Buell. O’Neil Ford, a Texas architect,  was the associate architect on the project. The interiors were handled by Castle West and Mardi Buell Groos, the design associate for the project. 

The International style was widely used throughout the United States, with Cherry Creek Towers in the first wave of such buildings. In 1962 it cost $2,200,000 to build, which is the equivalent of $22,000,000 in todays dollars. The building was recognized for its innovations and was featured on the cover of Architectural Record, January 1963 in an article about cutting edge apartment buildings.  Click here for the January 1963 Architectural Record article about Cherry Creek Tower.

Cherry Creek Tower Apartments was purchased in 1972 from the Guaranty Corporation for $2,000,000 by Cherry Creek Towers Inc., an affiliate of a subsidiary of D.C. Burns Realty and Trust. It was later sold to B-Corp to be converted to condominiums.