In the mid-1990s, historical preservationist Dana Crawford and hotelier Walter Isenberg found themselves getting a martini in Denver's Oxford Hotel. Located in the historic Lower Downtown, or "LoDo," area, the Oxford is Denver's oldest hotel, and Crawford and Isenberg had just teamed up on a restoration of the property. "Let's walk across the street," Crawford told Isenberg. They walked into Denver's Union Station. Lit dimly with fluorescent lights hung from the vaulted ceiling, the boarded-up walls penned in the handful of passengers waiting for a train that came just twice a day.
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