Denver Zoo Elephant's

Above is the East Denver Park District maintenance shop designed by Joel Gray Barri, City Superintendent in 1908. This building originally served as the pump house for City Park, but from 1950 to 1959 it served as the "elephant house" for the neighboring Denver Zoo.

As the Denver Zoo, which is on of North America's finest and most progressive zoo's start's construction of it's monumental new Asian Tropic's facility, you have to wonder how reaction to it will play out. Will it be criticized by the " zoo extremist's" as having no "exhibit enrichment", while the pictures below suggest more then enough enrichment, and be lauded as a monument to man's stupidity and ego, while receiving the same bashing that the National Zoo got upon completion of their new Elephant Trails. Or will the " zoo extremist's" look at where Denver Zoo's elephants came from, above in 1959, and instead get on the same wagon as their zoo collegues and applaud the great strides in elephant husbandry combined with education and entertainment(there it is, that nasty word I said it.)