Kirkegaard Acres

This is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Aurora.  It is 100 acres located to the southeast of Airport & Colfax.

You don’t need a time machine to see what a typical Aurora neighborhood was like in the early 20th century. Tucked behind the buzz of East Colfax Avenue and East 14th Drive is an enclave of homes that look like farmhouses, where horses graze on spacious backyard lands. But horses and humans aren’t the only residents here. Raccoons, foxes, coyotes, skunks, great horned owls and red-tailed hawks also set up camp in the tall grasses and towering trees, just as they did a century ago. Members of the Danish Kirkegaard family settled the neighborhood in the early 1900s when East Colfax Avenue wasn’t so much an avenue as it was a dirt road paved well enough for horse-drawn-carriages. One of the Kirkegaards helped prepare the road by using mules to haul dirt. Yes, at one point there were furry, smelly quadrupeds moseying along Colfax.
http://www.aurorasentinel.com/aurora-magazine/features/simplicity-kirkegaard-acres/