Historic Denver Magnets

We collaborated with the Denver Public Libraries to print these exclusive, limited edition, and one-of-a-kind magnets of the jazz scene in Historic Denver!  The Rossonian: From the late 1920s through the 1950s the Rossonian Hotel was a focal point in the Five Points community and its lounge was the most esteemed jazz club between Kansas City and Los Angeles. This Beaux-Arts style flatiron building opened on Welton Street in 1912 as the Baxter Hotel and was renamed the Rossonian after its manager A.W.L. Ross in 1929. The club hosted jazz luminaries such as Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington (who spent an entire summer there), Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday, and launched the career of important Denver-based musicians including bassist Charles Burrell and pianist Charlotte Cowens. The Rossonian Hotel offered accommodations for Black performers at a time when they were prevented from staying in hotels downtown. Following the lifting of segregationist housing covenants in the