Knob Hill, is a neighborhood of

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, United States, and is located northeast of downtown Colorado Springs.

History

Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind

1909 Colorado Springs Benford-Bryan map - Institute Heights

The Colorado Institute of the Education of the Mutes (now

Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind The Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind (CSDB) is a K-12 residential school, located on Knob Hill, east of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, near the famous laboratory of Nikola Tesla. The school was founded in 1874 as ''The Colorado Inst ...

) was founded by Jonathan R. Kennedy and opened on April 8, 1874. The school began with a Territorial appropriation of $5,000. It first operated in a rented house with seven students. Kennedy, who had worked at the

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, was the director of the school. He and his wife had children who attended the school.

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donated land to build a permanent school on Knob Hill, east of Colorado Springs. In 2014, there are 500 students across the state.

Union Printers Home

The Childs-Drexel Home for Union Printers was dedicated on May 12, 1892. It was run by the

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to take care of ill and elderly patients. The home was bought by Heart Living Centers in 2014.

Tesla Experimental Station

The inventor

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experimental station was located on Knob Hill at a site near the current Kiowa and Foote Streets, between the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind and the Union Printers' Home. It was built and operated in 1899 and was torn down in 1904. A street car came to Knob Hill, at that time at the edge of the prairie.

St. Francis Hospital

The St. Francis Hospital was built on Institute Heights at the east end of Pike's Peak Avenue, near the Knob Hill street car line.

Other

The Pikes Peak Gun Club was on Knob Hill near the city limits. The Knob Hill Auction Company held monthly auctions on the hill to sell horses. Livestock was sold weekly on Knob Hill, where there was also a nearby cafe.

Annexation

In 1950, 3,612 people lived in Knob Hill. On June 14 of that year, Knob Hill was annexed into Colorado Springs and became the Knob Hill neighborhood.

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{{authority control 1952 establishments in Colorado Geography of Colorado Springs, Colorado Hills of the United States Landforms of Colorado Neighborhoods in Colorado