One of Denver’s oldest neighborhoods, with block after block of Victorian homes mixed with luxury lofts and new housing developments, Five Points is one of the few historically predominantly African American-owned commercial strips in the country. Some have referred to the area as the “Harlem of the West” for its jazz history, where many of the greats, including Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and more played at clubs like Rossonian and the Rainbow Room. The area was mentioned frequently in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The Stiles African American Heritage Center (2607 Glenarm Pl.), The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library (2401 Welton St.) and The Black American West Museum (3091 California St.) tell the story of the African American in the West. Restaurants in this neighborhood serve up some of the best Caribbean, soul food, catfish, and BBQ you’ll find anywhere. Five Points has always been a neighborhood with a diverse economic mix of residents, evidenced by the variety of houses there. Mansions were built next to row homes.