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By 1925, the establishment of the numbered highway system nationwide made named highways redundant. After the federal numbers game, the Lincoln became US Highway 30 (now Interstate 80) and the National Old Trails Road was renamed US Highway 40. During this era, one of the beneficiaries of early transcontinental auto travel was Denver’s Colfax Avenue. Boasting a dual identity as both a neighborhood street and transcontinental highway, Colfax Avenue formed part of the right-of-way for US 40. During the 1920s, motor inns, restaurants, and curio shops lined blocks of Colfax from the prairie to the foothills west of Denver. Each structure seemed more outrageous than the next as architectural styles like Art Deco and Moderne greeted travelers. After World War II, Colfax took the “exaggerated modern” form of building construction through exaggerated structural components, oversized roofs, V-shaped columns, and visual fronts. Colfax Avenue retains much of its eclectic nature scattered along its length from gaudy restaurants and motels. Final CDOT Historic Highway Context 5-7
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