event venue · since 1903
Ironworks
A 1903 drafting hall for the steelworks next door, now rented out
Ironworks and Mile High Station are one operation on the old Midwest Steel and Ironworks site, west of the campus. This is the 1903 building, put up to handle drafting for the metal fabrication next door, and the renovation left the brick, the I-beam frame and some of the machinery where they were. It works as a rental room now: weddings, company parties, the occasional ticketed night. The listed weekday hours are the sales office, not open doors, so the place is only yours when something is booked.
Why go. Brick, I-beams and old machinery in a room Denver rents for its big nights.
Not a walk-in bar - check the events calendar before you make the trip over from Ball Arena.
A short walk from Ironworks
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