Lincoln Park Addition, Grand Junction, Colorado Lincoln Park Historic District Lincoln Park Neighborhood 1925 Grand Junction Mesa Colorado 81501 USA A neighborhood adjoining Lincoln Park, just south of the park. It is bordered by Gunnison Avenue on the North, Grand Avenue on the South, 12th Street on the West, and 19th Street on the South. The area from 12th to 15th Streets comprises the Lincoln Park Historic District, and was first developed by Clarence Kurtz and Clyde Biggs. Josephine Biggs, wife of Clyde, describes the land that they purchased in 1925 as an “alfalfa field.” According to oral history interviewee Howard Shults, prior to becoming a housing development, the area east of 12th Street and south of Gunnison Avenue was a large farm operated by “Old Man Pottoff.” Kurtz and Biggs laid out two blocks with a short third block along what became the extension of Gunnison Avenue. Prior to that time, a high fence ran along the path where Gunnison Avenue was later built, separating what was then the Mesa County Fairgrounds from the land around. The fence bordered the race track in the fairgrounds. Apparently, it was a man named DeBoer who platted the streets in the area, and who also landscaped Lincoln Park, taking out the fairgrounds and putting in the golf course. Remaining land was donated by Biggs and Kurtz to the Grand Junction School District for the construction of a school. The Lincoln School (later the Lincoln Park School) was built at 600 N. 14th Street in 1925. Kurtz built his home at 1259 Gunnison Avenue in the Spanish Mission style popular at the time, and this style is echoed here and there throughout the neighborhood. yes yes