Barteldes Seed Lofts

1600 Wynkoop Street/Barteldes Seed Building is celebrating its 100 year anniversary in 2006. The Barteldes Seed Building was built when Denver was the seed center of the United States, furnishing enormous quantities of seeds to the leading seed houses of the country. According to a June 289, 1906 article in The Denver Times, the Barteldes Seed Company's new warehouse, designed by Gove and Walsh, was the heaviest construction ever built in the city. The walls and floors were constructed to stand 600 lb of loading per sq ft on all of its five floors. It has a Richardsonian design, a finely proportioned facade with fine brick detail. The second floor was attached by a pedestrian bridge to the 16th Street Viaduct until the viaduct was removed in 1994. The building was owned and occupied by The Majestic Was Company for 20 years, followed by The Design Factory. In 1987 the property was redeveloped into mixed-use office and residential lofts.