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Motor Coach Division Building, Denver Tramway Company
Denver County
The Motor Coach Division Building of the Denver Tramway Company played an important role in the transition from streetcars to gas and diesel powered, rubber-tired, motor coaches, or buses, in the Denver metropolitan region, from 1937 to 1950.
The 1893 building began as a storage facility for electric streetcars, but a 1937 addition doubled the size of the facility and began its function as a bus garage and maintenance facility. An additional expansion occurred in 1947 to accommodate more buses necessitated by the expansion of public transportation to meet Denver’s post-World War II growth.
National Register
Address
3500 Gilpin St. / Denver
Site Number
5DV.5337