Denver City Cable Railway Building (Denver, Colorado)

 office building, Romanesque (architecture), NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, commercial building

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Historic commercial building listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Built: 1889
Architectural style: Romanesque Revival
Areas of significance: Architecture; Transportation
Area: less than 1 acre
Also known as: Cable Building; Tramway Cable Building; The Spaghetti Factory
Date added to NRHP: 7/2/1979
Other designations: part of the Downtown Denver Multiple Property Submission; listed on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties
Notes: This two-story red brick building was constructed to house the operations of the Denver City Cable Railway Company. Incorporated in 1888, by the early 1890s the company had thirty miles of cable railway running through Denver business and residential areas. Soon displaced by electric streetcars, the last Denver cable car ran in 1900. The building now contains commercial offices.