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5,950 Denver House That Now Sells for Nearly a Million

A 1955 Krisana Park mid-century modern at 1360 S Dahlia St is open Saturday, Nov. 7, noon to 3, listed at $795,000. It sold new for 5,950 Denver House That Now Sells for Nearly a Million">,250 a home. Today you cannot touch a Krisana Park original for under three-quarters of a million.

And this Saturday, you can walk through one.

The Denver Gazette put it in their home of the week spot. A 3-bed, 2-bath, 1,619 square feet, listed at $795,000, open November 7th from noon to 3 p.m. The address is 1360 S Dahlia Street, 80222, listed by a Denver brokerage broker Deviree Vallejo. It is being marketed as a time capsule, and honestly that is the right word. Post-and-beam bones, the wide eaves, the clerestory windows letting light in up high where you would not expect it.

How a Denver alfalfa field became a Space Age neighborhood

Here is the part people miss about Krisana Park. This was not some big corporate build. It was a father and son.

Hiram Wolff, everybody called him H.B., and his son Brad were Denver developers who got obsessed with what Joseph Eichler was doing out in California. Eichler built more than 10,000 of his California Contemporary homes around the San Francisco Bay Area between 1949 and 1966, and he started them around $9,400. Clean lines, glass, the whole middle-class-modern thing.

So the Wolffs looked at a former alfalfa field in southeast Denver and thought, we can do that here. In 1954 and 1955 they put up roughly 175 to 177 homes. They called them 3-D Contemporaries. Four floor plans, each one 3-bed, 2-bath, about 1,250 square feet, with the tongue-and-groove ceilings and a carport out front.

The name is my favorite detail. Krisana. It is Christian and Ann Noe, the couple who sold the Wolffs the land, with their first names smashed together. Christian plus Ann. Krisana. That is it. You drive past that street sign a thousand times and never know you are saying two strangers' names every time.

The homes sold out fast. So fast the Wolffs ran it back. In 1956 and 1957 they built a sequel right next door called Lynwood, this time with six floor plans including tri-levels and A-frames. Put the two neighborhoods together and you have got about 299 mid-century modern homes clustered in one pocket of the city. That does not happen in Denver. We scrape and rebuild. We do not usually keep things.

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6K to $881K

So let us talk about what these are actually doing on the market right now, because this is the stuff I watch.

That $795,000 listing on Dahlia is not an outlier. There is a home on S Fairfax at $725,000 that has already pended. Active right now you have got 1405 S Elm at $895,000, 1497 S Fairfax at $950,000, and 1333 S Eudora asking $995,000. One broker's sold data shows eight Krisana Park homes changing hands across 2025 and 2026 at an average sale price of $881,113.

Do the math on that against