The Mapleton Hill Neighborhood is one of Boulder's oldest neighborhoods. In the early 1880's, about a decade after Boulder was incorporated two neighborhoods were established; the first two, of many to come were the Mapleton Hill Neighborhood, and to the south and east of Mapleton Hill we have the Whittier Neighborhood.
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It took a dozen years or so for things to really get going in Mapleton Hill, about one third of the 500 homes in the neighborhood were built between 1895 and 1900, and then over half of the homes here (around 250 homes) were built between 1900 and about 1910.
Mapleton Avenue was originally known as Hill Street. If you've ever walked the stretch of Mapleton Avenue going west from Broadway, you know exactly why they called it Hill Street!
When the Mapleton neighborhood was getting off the ground, approximately 200 Silver Maple trees were planted, then in ...