West Baker / Santa Fe Drive Edge

The western residential strip of Baker between Santa Fe Drive and the light rail line, a quieter counterpoint to the Broadway corridor. This zone overlaps with Denver's Art District on Santa Fe, whose gallery row between 6th and Alameda draws thousands to First Friday Art Walks (5:30–9:30 p.m. year-round) featuring hundreds of artists, studios, and co-ops. Housing stock is a mix of 1890s–1920s brick duplexes, shotgun cottages, and Denver Squares, with scattered mid-century ranches and newer 3-story townhome infill along 6th Avenue corridor blocks. The RTD 10th & Osage light rail station on the neighborhood's northwest edge provides direct D, E, and H Line service to downtown (5 minutes) and the Denver Tech Center. Just across the station sits the Buckhorn Exchange, Denver's oldest continuously operating restaurant (1893), a National Historic Landmark with 575 taxidermied pieces and a 125-piece antique gun collection. Pricing runs slightly below the historic district core because of fewer landmark-designated blocks and proximity to I-25 noise.