Francis W. Wynkoop
Francis (Frank) W. Wynkoop (January 24, 1902 – September 2, 1978), was an American architect, known for building educational school buildings in Pacific Grove, California, Pacific Grove and San Carlos, California, San Carlos, and oceanfront homes in Carmel Point at the southern city limits of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. One of them is the noted Butterfly House (Carmel-by-the-Sea, California), Butterfly House on Scenic Drive. Early life Wynkoop was born on January 24, 1902, in Denver, Colorado. His father was Francis Murray Wynkoop (1869-1954) and mother was Leona Mehan (1880-1951). His grandfather was Edward W. Wynkoop (1836-1891), one of the founders of the city of Denver, Colorado. Wynkoop Street in Denver is named after him. In 1904, when Wynkoop was two years old, his parents moved from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Long Beach, California. In 1910, he lived with his parents in Vallejo, California. By 1920, when he was 17 years old, he was living with his family in Pomona, ...
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Denver, Colorado
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the ''Mile High City'' because its official elevation is exactly one mile () above sea level. The 105th meridian we ...
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