Fence Contractor in Five Points, Denver

Why fence work in Five Points is different

Curtis Park sits inside Five Points — it is not a separate neighborhood — with a golden age from 1870 to 1893 and nearly 500 late-19th-century houses still standing, listed on the National Register in 1975. The Curtis Park Historic District is a Denver landmark district, and the Five Points Historic Cultural District was designated in 2002 to recognize Black history. Inside the landmark district, Landmark Preservation reviews fences and a permit is required at any height, with front-yard fences at or under 4 feet and more than 50 percent open. District boundaries are block-specific, so we check per address. The street pattern is part of the job too: Five Points is where downtown's diagonal grid meets east Denver's rectangular grid, so corner lots are unusually angled with complex sight triangles. Many Victorians were subdivided into multi-unit apartments, so shared yards, multiple gates, and association or co-owner decisions are common.

The RiNo edge: warehouse conversions and galleries

RiNo — the River North Art District — overlaps the northern and fringe blocks of Five Points. It is not a separate neighborhood, and it has no standalone page here. The northern blocks are now galleries, breweries, and warehouses, with modern townhomes and lofts on the same streets as Victorian houses. Homes there back onto commercial and industrial uses and need security fencing, not just garden privacy, and the modern horizontal slat you see on RiNo-edge townhomes is a different fence from the low iron and picket of Curtis Park.

The LoDo edge: warehouse lofts and the ballpark

LoDo — Lower Downtown — is the historic warehouse district on Five Points' southern edge, not a separate neighborhood. The Lower Downtown Historic District was created in 1988, covering 25 square blocks and 127 historic structures, and any exterior fence or gate on one of those warehouse buildings needs design-review approval, with period iron and brick replicated rather than replaced. Housing there is almost entirely condos and lofts in converted 19th-century brick warehouses, so the fence work is building perimeter, courtyard, and rooftop-terrace railing and gates — a commercial and condo scope, not a backyard fence. The Coors Field and Ballpark blocks bring event crowds and parking pressure, and fences and gates there take event-day wear.

• Two historic layers: Victorian Curtis Park and the Welton Street jazz corridor — both respected
• Curtis Park Historic District: Landmark review and a permit at any height, checked per address
• Diagonal-grid collision: unusually angled corner lots with complex sight triangles
• Phone only: call (720) 697-2456, Monday to Sunday, 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM