Draft:Rocky Mountain Hotel

The Zang Brewery, at 2345 seventh Ave...

Zang Mansion Albums Mansion history Zang Mansion is not open for visitors.

The Rocky Mountain Hotel, in north Denver just west of the South Platte River, is a Late Victorian two-story commercial building built in 1892 as part of the Zang Brewery complex.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was deemed significant "for its association with the Zang Brewery, one of early Denver's major industries which contributed to both Colorado's industrial and agricultural development."

It was "the successor to the Rocky Mountain Brewery, the first maker of beer in the area. In 1860, only a year after Denver*s birth, the Rocky Mountain Brewery was established near the present site of the Zang Brewmaster's house. In 1869, John Good, proprietor of the Rocky Mountain Brewery, hired Philip Zang as manager. Zang, who was born in Bavaria in 1826, founded the Zang and Company brewery in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1859, from which most of the family's wealth was derived. After three years as manager of the Rocky Mountain Brewery, Zang bought out Good in 1872 and changed the name of the company. Adolph Zang joined his father at the brewery in 1882 and managed the operation from then until 1913 even though the business was owned by an English syndicate after 1889."

"The Zang Brewery was an important consumer of Colorado agricultural products, and its proprietors were largely instrumental in starting the cultivation of barley by Colorado farmers. Frequently the Zang Company furnished the seed to the farmer along with instruction as to the best method of production. Barley for a time was the most 'remunerative crop in the state. Records in 1892 indicate that the Zang Brewery was paying out annually $120,000 in wages, $150,000 for 12,000,000 pounds of Colorado barley, $10,000 in taxes, and $50,000 for coal, hay, feed, printing, and other services. The brewery also required the breeding and use of hundreds of draft horses to pull their delivery wagons as far as New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, and South Dakota."

"The brewery was rebuilt several times after floods and fires and was eventually located in the area of Seventh Street and the Platte River. Production zoomed from a dozen barrels of beer a day in 1869 to 175,000 barrels a day in 1917, making it a $3,000,000 a year concern. However Prohibition finished the company. After unsuccessful years of making near-beer, the brewery closed in 1927. Soon after, the main buildings burned to the ground, leaving just the structures which are the subject of this proposal as reminders of the heydays of the industry." "1. The Zang Brewroaster's house, 2345-7th Street, is on the National Register of Historic Places, as are two houses which were owned by Adolph Zang, son of the brewery owner, at 709 Clarkson and 1532 Emerson. The Zang Barn and Stable (2263 Seventh Street) and the Rocky Mountain Hotel were both listed as a complex in the National Register June 7, 1982. However, because of the objection to listing by the owners of the barn and stable, the complex was de-registered."

It has segmentally arched windows and a wide, bracketed cornice.

In 2022 it is the home of Confluence Kayak & Ski and of the Platte Valley Dispensary (a cannabis store).

It is located across Water St. from the Downtown Aquarium, at 2301 7th Street in the Jefferson Park neighborhood.

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"Sorry, but this "brewery" isn't open to the public. Westword Given Denver's intensely competitive brewery culture, it's no wonder that the signs displayed outside a gated mansion at 709 Clarkson Street have been getting a lot of attention recently. "Zang Brewing Co." read the large orange letters of one, perched above an outdoor seating area. "Zang Mansion: The Original King of Beers," say the black letters of a more reserved sign.

Unfortunately for beer fans, this mansion is not going to be the home of Denver's next hip drinking spot — but it was once the home of Adolph Zang, who owned and ran the famed Zang Brewery. The building's newish owner, Kevin Vollmer, has been collecting Zang memorabilia and placing it inside and outside of the house.

"Mr. Vollmer loves Colorado history, so he took the mansion and decided to make this a great office," explains Gina Seamans, who works as an executive assistant for Vollmer. "But he also wants to bring together a lot of the Zang history."

Vollmer, who owns several businesses related to health care, bought the mansion in 2015. "He has hunted for memorabilia that is particularly related to the business side of the Zang family, which was the brewery," Seamans explains. Some Zang family descendants have also donated material they'd collected over the years"

"The signs outside the mansion were hung fairly recently. The orange one used to be displayed at 2301 Seventh Street, a historic building that held a bar called Zang Brewing Co. for nearly thirty years until 2003 (it didn't actually brew beer, despite the name), when it became El Senor Sol Mexican restaurant. The building is now home to Confluence Kayaks, which had to move the sign in order to refurbish its air-conditioning system. That's when Vollmer acquired it, Seamans says.

But before it was a bar, that Seventh Street building was actually part of the sprawling Zang Brewing campus, which was originally built in the 1860s under a different name. Over the next thirty years, it grew into one of the largest breweries in the United States under the direction of Philip Zang and his son Adolph, who both had numerous other business interests and helped found Lakeside Amusement Park."

[https://www.westword.com/restaurants/el-se-or-sol-closes-downtown-location-in-former-zang-brewing-co-space-8815961 El Señor Sol Closes Downtown Location in Former Zang Brewing Co. Space MARK ANTONATION FEBRUARY 21, 2017 ] "FOOD NEWS

El Señor Sol Closes Downtown Location in Former Zang Brewing Co. Space MARK ANTONATION FEBRUARY 21, 2017 8:55AM

The space that held El Señor Sol is now for lease. The space that held El Señor Sol is now for lease. Mark Antonation The lone red-brick building that stands at 2301 Seventh Street (across the street from the Denver Aquarium) has housed many businesses over the years, but was best known as the last home of the Zang Brewing Co., founded in the late 1800s, which became a restaurant after it stopped brewing beer. In the early 2000s, El Señor Sol took over the space, serving both Mexican fare and bar food under the Zang name for a short period before ditching the old brewery's label entirely. But after a long run, El Señor Sol has vacated the building and a "For Lease" sign hangs over the front window.

El Señor Sol was founded in the early 1990s by Felipe Duran and his family, and there are several branches currently operating around metro Denver, though even the company's official website can't seem to keep track of just how many. The home page boasts "8 delicious locations," but another description encourages guests to "visit us at any of our 7 locations around the Front Range." The Locations page of the website lists six addresses, one of which is the now-closed downtown Señor Sol. So that's five by our count, in Arvada, Littleton, Centennial, Evergreen and Golden, making the Señor Sol empire shine a little less brightly than at its peak."