Discover Denver needs your help!
No expertise in a particular subject area is required to volunteer with us. Some of our volunteers are historians, architects or students in history, historic preservation or urban planning, but many have no formal training in any of these fields. If you love old buildings or history or want to learn about Denver’s unique neighborhoods, we need you!
Field Survey Volunteers
Field Survey Volunteers help by documenting buildings throughout the city. Using handheld tablets, they photograph individual buildings and note their architectural features. Three-hour shifts are available on weekdays and weekends, so volunteers can sign up for as many shifts as they like. All survey volunteers are trained before they are sent out into the field. To become a field survey volunteer, apply here.
Building Research Volunteers
Research Volunteers research the history of buildings for which we have received tips or that have been identified through field survey as potentially significant. Research entails determining who designed, built, and owned or lived in a building over time, and whether any significant events have occurred there. Because most research is performed either online or at the Denver Public Library, research volunteers are free to work whenever they’d like. Research volunteers receive training on what they need to know before they are assigned research. To become a research volunteer, apply here.
