Fisher & Fisher was an architectural firm based in

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named for partners

William Ellsworth Fisher William Ellsworth Fisher (1871 – 1937) was an architect who founded the Denver, Colorado firm that became Fisher & Fisher. Fisher's father, Allen S. Fisher, moved to Denver from Clinton, Ontario, Canada,LeRoy Reuben Hafen, ''Colorado and i ...

(1871–1937) and Arthur Addison Fisher (1878–1965). The firm was founded in 1892 by William Ellsworth Fisher as William Fisher, Architect. After ten years in practice alone, mainly designing starter homes, he partnered with Daniel Riggs Huntington from 1901 to 1905 as Fisher & Huntington, during which time the firm designed increasingly expensive residences and also commercial buildings. The firm then once more became William Fisher, Architect until 1907, when William was joined by his younger brother Arthur Addison Fisher; they worked together as William Fisher Architect and Brother until 1910 and then as William E. Fisher and Arthur A. Fisher, Architects until William's death in 1937. William's son Alan B. Fisher, who had previously joined the firm, then became his uncle's partner and the firm was renamed Arthur A. Fisher and Alan B. Fisher, Architects. From 1956 to 1959 they were joined by Rodney S. Davis as Fisher, Fisher and Davis; on Arthur's retirement the firm became Fisher and Davis. Finally beginning in 1967, Alan Fisher was in partnership with John D. Reece and Hilary M. Johnson as Fisher, Reece and Johnson until his retirement in 1978. In Colorado, the firm worked on dozens of notable buildings, and has left a legacy unique in the state. Of 67 surviving buildings in Denver identifiable as being by Fisher & Fisher, 50 are either listed on the U.S.

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(NRHP), individually or as part of historic districts, or are eligible for listing. Although most work by Fisher & Fisher was in Denver, buildings by them elsewhere in the state and outside it are also listed. For example, William and Arthur Fisher planned the town of Parco, Wyoming (now

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) and designed its public buildings.Parco (Sinclair) Historic District
National Register of Historic Places, Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office, November 30, 2011, retrieved December 2, 2011. The Fisher brothers were unusually innovative, and the firm's buildings are in a variety of styles. The Railway Exchange Addition of 1909/13 and the connected Railway Exchange New Building of 1937 (now the Hotel Monaco) in downtown Denver show contrasting styles by the same firm. The New Building, by Fisher, Fisher & Hubbell, is one of Denver's best Art Moderne works, although the architects denied at the time that it was "modernistic". In April 2011 one of their works, the Cowperthwaite home, was the 2011 Denver Designer Show House, a fundraiser involving interior decorators prior to the house coming to market."Internationally recognized architect Bobby McAlpine announced as Honorary Chair of Denver Designer Show House to benefit The Children’s Hospital,"
Fuller Sotheby's International Realty, January 21, 2011, retrieved November 29, 2011. Among lost works by the firm are the Lafayette Hughes and Gerald Hughes mansions. Surviving works include (with attribution): *Ashland Public Library, 207 N. 15th St. Ashland, NE (Shankland,W.R./Fisher & Fisher), NRHP-listed *Belcaro, 3400 Belcaro Dr.

Denver, CO 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 ...

(Fisher & Fisher), NRHP-listed *Copperthwaite Home *Ideal Building, 821 17th St.

(Fisher & Fisher), NRHP-listed *Lorraine Lodge, SW of Golden

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(Fisher & Fisher), NRHP-listed *McPhee and McGinnity Building, 2301 Blake St.

(Fisher & Fisher), NRHP-listed *Neusteter Building, 720 Sixteenth St.

(Fisher & Fisher), NRHP-listed * South High School, 17800 East Louisiana Avenue

(Fisher & Fisher), NRHP-listed * St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 607 Fourth St.

Alamosa, CO Alamosa is a home rule municipality and the county seat of Alamosa County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 9,806 at the 2020 United States Census. The city is the commercial center of the San Luis Valley in south-central Colorad ...

(Fisher, William Ellsworth; Fisher, Arthur Addison), NRHP-listed * Tower of Memories, 8500 W. 29th Ave. Wheat Ridge, CO (Charles A. Smith, Fisher & Fisher, John Monroe), NRHP-listed *Tramway Building, 1100 14th St.

(Fisher & Fisher), NRHP-listed *Quine Commercial Building (apartments, theater and retail), 6 Broadway

(Fisher & Fisher) Fisher and Fisher Architectural Records, Western History Collection
WH932, The Denver Public Library. *Original public buildings in

Parco Historic District The Parco Historic District, also known as the Sinclair Historic District, comprises the center of Sinclair, Wyoming, originally known as Parco, surrounding the Parco Inn. The district includes 93 buildings, of which 49 are considered to be cont ...

, roughly bounded by Monroe Ave., N. Fourth St., Union and Lincoln Aves., and N. Ninth St. Sinclair, WY (Fisher & Fisher), NRHP-listed

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